QUARTER 
CENTURY 

RECORD  * 

CLASS  OF 

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YALE 
COLLEGE 


GIFT  OF 
W.A.   Setchell 


QUARTER-CENTURY    RECORD,    1887-1912 


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QUARTER  CENTURY    RECORD    OF 

THE  CLASS  OF  EIGHTEEN 

EIGHTYSEVEN 

YALE  COLLEGE 


COMPILED  BY  THE  SECRETARY  OF  THE  CLASS 
GEORGE  E^HILL 


1887-1912 


PRINTED  FOR 

THE  CLASS  SECRETARIES  BUREAU 
UNDER  THE  DIRECTION  OF 
YALE  UNIVERSITY   PRESS 

NEW  HAVEN  CONNECTICUT 


PREVIOUS  PUBLICATIONS  BY  THE  CLASS 

Triennial  Record  of  the  Class  of  1887  in  Yale  College.  Edited  and 
published  by  Andrew  Frink  Gates,  Class  Secretary.  59  pp. 

1  por.     Press  of  The  Case,  Lockwood  &  Brainard  Co.,  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  1891. 

Sexennial  Record  of  the  Class  of  1887  in  Yale  College.  Edited  and 
published  by  George  E.  Hill,  Class  Secretary.  69  pp.  2  pi. 
Press  of  The  Marigold  Printing  Co.,  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  1893. 

Decennial  Record  of  the  Class  of  1887  in  Yale  College.  Edited  and 
published  by  George  E.  Hill,  Class  Secretary.  89  pp.  1  pi. 
Press  of  The  Marigold  Printing  Co.,  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  1S97. 

Quindecennial  Record  of  the  Class  of  1887  in  Yale  College.  Edited 
and  published  by  George  E.  Hill,  Class  Secretary.  131  pp. 

2  pi.     Press  of  The  Standard  Association,  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
1903. 

Vicennial  Record  of  the  Class  of  1887  in  Yale  College.  Edited  and 
published  by  George  E.  Hill,  Class  Secretary.  182  pp.  1  pi. 
The  Marigold-Foster  Printing  Co.,  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  1909. 


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CONTENTS 

Preface 5 

Twenty-five  Years  of  '87 

Twenty-five  Years  After 11 

Reminiscences  and  Changes 17 

Andrew  W.  Phillips 47 

The  Quarter-Century  Reunion 

The  Story  of  the  Reunion 55 

Alumni    Weekly    Account Ill 

The  Class  Register 114 

Sheffield's  Speech  at  Alumni  Meeting 118 

Biographies  and  Bibliography 

Biographies  of  Graduates 123 

Biographies  of  Non-Graduates  and  Ex-Members  .       .       .  422 

Bibliography 454 

Miscellaneous  and  Statistical 

The  Bennetto  Scholarship 489 

List  of  Recipients  of  John  Hubbard  Curtis  Prize  .       .       .  494 

List  of  Recipients  of  Thomas  Hamlin  Curtis  Prize   .       .  494 

The  Alumni   Fund 495 

Statistics 497 

Occupations 497 

Register  of  Attendance  at  Reunions 497 

Marriages   and   Children 501 

College  Record  of  Children 509 

Necrology 511 

Locality    Index 512 

Roll   of   the    Class    ,  515 


TWENTY-FIVE    YEARS   OF    '87 

TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS   AFTER 
REMINISCENCES  AND  CHANGES 
ANDREW  W.    PHILLIPS 


TWENTY-FIVE   YEARS   AFTER 

The  unwritten  law  requires  that  somewhere  between  the  covers 
of  an  '87  Class  report  there  shall  be  found  a  bird's-eye  view  of  the 
Class  as  a  whole,  showing  its  collective  progress,  its  place  in  the 
greater  army  of  Yale  men,  suggesting  who  wear  the  uniforms  of 
commissioned  and  non-commissioned  officers  and  how  those  men 
who  march  in  the  ranks  meet  the  brunt  of  battle  and  the  fatigue 
of  the  "hike." 

The  ranks  of  our  division  of  the  Yale  army  are  not  as  full  as 
they  were  in  1887,  for  there  have  fallen  by  the  way  nineteen  and 
three-tenths  per  cent  of  all  those  who  started  together  from  Center 
Church  in  June  of  that  year.  In  other  words,  of  the  one  hundred 
and  fifty  graduates,  twenty-nine  are  known  to  have  died,  and  one 
hundred  and  twenty-one  are  enrolled  as  living  members. 

Those  who  have  died  since  the  last  report  are  five  in  number. 
Hare's  death  just  as  the  last  book  went  to  press,  was  noted  in  that 
book.  In  the  February  following  (1910),  Tom  Curtis,  our  vale- 
dictorian, died  in  Portland,  Ore.,  an  unexpected  end  to  an  illness 
not  at  first  deemed  serious.  Mrs.  Curtis  with  their  little  daughter, 
then  two  years  of  age,  came  back  to  New  Haven,  her  home  before 
her  marriage,  and  is  living  there. 

Within  a  month  (March,  1910),  Henry  Ivison,  who  had  been 
out  of  health  for  some  time,  died  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  where  he 
had  been  living  for  some  years.  He  left  a  widow  and  two  sons, 
the  elder  of  whom  is  now  (1914)  twenty-five  years  old. 

Two  years  passed  before  there  was  another  break  in  our  ranks, 
when  word  came  (March,  1912)  of  the  death  of  Jack  Hume.  He 
was  one  of  the  men  of  whom  we  had  seen  but  little  at  Class 
reunions,  as  the  only  time  he  had  been  back  with  the  Class  was  at 
Vicennial,  in  1907.  He  had  been  for  more  than  twenty  years 
actively  engaged  in  his  profession  in  Chicago,  and  had  served  one 
or  more  terms  as  municipal  judge,  a  position  which  he  occupied  at 
his  death.  He  was  unmarried. 

In  1913  there  were  two  deaths.  Charlie  Hinkle  died  very  sud- 
denly in  that  year,  at  Hot  Springs,  Va.,  where  he  usually  spent 


12  TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  '87 

some  time  in  the  spring,  his  winters  being  passed  in  the  South, 
although  his  legal  home  continued  to  be  at  Osterville,  Mass.  His 
family,  consisting  of  a  widow,  a  daughter  and  two  sons,  continue 
to  reside  at  Osterville. 

In  the  summer  of  1913,  while  engaged  upon  the  biographical 
work  for  this  book,  the  Secretary,  being  unable  to  elicit  replies 
from  Bonar,  sought  other  sources  of  information  in  Memphis,  Tenn., 
where  he  had  lived  for  some  years,  and  learned  that  he  had 
recently  died  in  Detroit,  where  he  had  gone  temporarily.  He  left 
a  widow,  but  no  children. 

Of  those  who  still  march  behind  the  '87  banner  there  are  but 
few  stragglers.  When  the  roll  is  called,  they  nearly  all  are  either 
present  or  accounted  for.  There  are  but  two  of  the  graduates 
concerning  whom  the  Secretary  has  never  been  able  to  get  any 
information  whatever.  Stein  has  never  been  heard  from  except 
through  rumors  since  graduation,  and  even  rumors  about  him  ceased 
twenty  years  ago.  Every  source  of  information  has  been  exhausted 
and  if  his  whereabouts  are  ever  known  to  the  Class,  it  will  doubt- 
less be  only  by  accident.  The  same  is  true  of  Holly.  In  the 
consulship  of  Frink  Gates  there  was  some  news  of  him,  but  the 
present  Secretary's  records,  dating  back  to  1893,  are  absolutely 
blank. 

These  two  men,  Stein  and  Holly,  are  carried  on  the  records  as 
living  members,  although  there  is  perhaps  greater  reason  for 
assuming  that  they  are  dead.f 

There  are  some  others  who  at  times  have  disappeared  from  view, 
only  to  reappear  after  a  lapse  of  time,  expressing  great  astonish- 
ment that  their  failure  to  register  a  new  address  with  the  Secre- 
tary or  the  University  should  have  resulted  in  failure  to  receive 
Class  letters  and  reports.  But  there  is  now  on  record,  and  repro- 
duced in  this  book,  information  of  comparatively  recent  date  con- 
cerning every  living  graduate  except  the  two  mentioned  above. 

The  one  hundred  and  twenty-one  living  members  are  scattered 
over  the  United  States  and  a  few  foreign  countries,  almost  pre- 
cisely as  they  were  five  years  ago. 

England,  Germany  and  China  each  has  one  of  our  classmates  for 

f  Since  the  above  was  written  Stein's  address  has  been  secured  and  infor- 
mation concerning  him  may  be  found  in  the  biographical  section  of  this 
book. 


TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  AFTER  13 

a  permanent  resident.  W.  R.  H.  Trowbridge  has  lived  in  London 
for  a  considerable  number  of  years,  has  abandoned  his  American 
citizenship  and  become  a  British  subject.  His  literary  work,  well 
known  in  England,  is  much  less  known  in  America,  but  its  character 
and  quantity  may  be  judged  from  information  to  be  found  else- 
where. 

Gardiner,  while  perhaps  nominally  an  American  citizen,  is  more 
frequently  to  be  found  in  London  than  in  New  York. 

Bissell  has  been  for  some  years  in  Munich,  where  he  is  the  head 
of  a  school  for  American  boys.  It  is  quite  certain  that  with  his 
expatriation  he  is  still  as  much  of  an  American  as  most  of  us. 

The  outbreak  of  the  European  war  (August,  1914)  brought 
to  him  a  new  line  of  activity,  as  he  appears  to  be  performing 
arduous  and  valuable  work  on  the  American  Relief  Committee  in 
Munich  and  is  business  manager  of  the  small  daily  publication 
called  American  Notes  in  Munich,  printed  for  the  information  of 
Americans  in  that  city  in  time  of  war.  His  school  work  goes  on 
notwithstanding  the  war  and  his  other  activities. 

Bliss,  we  all  know,  has  given  his  life  to  the  mission  field,  and 
has  been  in  China  practicing  his  profession  of  medicine  in  con- 
nection with  the  mission  work  since  1892. 

The  rest  of  us  are  resident  in  sixteen  states  of  the  Union,  the 
distribution  being  almost  precisely  as  it  has  been  for  fifteen  or 
twenty  years.  Men  of  fifty  (it  may  be  unkind  to  refer  to  it,  but 
the  stubborn  fact  is  that  our  average  age  passed  from  the  forties 
into  the  fifties  on  September  10,  1914)  do  not  change  location 
frequently  or  without  good  reason;  so  the  changes  among  us  have 
not  been  many. 

Sanford  Cobb,  on  account  of  his  health,  has  abandoned  the  East 
and  is  living  an  outdoor  life  surrounded  by  his  fruits,  his  flowers 
and  his  growing  family,  not  far  from  Pasadena,  in  southern 
California. 

Cunningham,  once  of  Norwich,  Conn.,  and  then  for  many  years 
of  New  York  (with  London,  Belfast  and  Glasgow  on  the  side)  is 
back  at  his  profession  "at  the  old  stand"  in  Norwich.  Arn,  the 
elusive,  at  times  the  despair  of  the  Secretary,  is  again,  and  appar- 
ently permanently  this  time,  in  Kansas  City,  Kans.  Root's  head- 
quarters have  shifted  from  Providence  to  Boston.  Penrose,  like- 
wise at  times  elusive,  is  at  St.  David's,  Pa.  Eddie  Burke's  old 


14  TWENTY-FIFE  YEARS  OF  '87 

familiar  Genoese  address  has  been  exchanged  for  one  having  a 
street  number  in  Omaha,  where  he  can  keep  daily  "tabs"  on  Vic 
Caldwell.  Pomeroy  is  at  Urbana,  111.,  at  the  University. 

It  has  been  demonstrated  that  some  of  us  are  still  of  marriage- 
able age,  by  the  fact  that  W.  H.  Ludington,  Thacher  and  G.  E. 
Hill  have  all  married  (and  each  for  the  first  time)  since  the  last 
report.  Of  the  one  hundred  and  twenty-one  living  graduates, 
twenty-three  have  not  married. 

The  children  of  the  Class  number  now  (September,  1914)  two 
hundred  and  fifty-four,  and  their  average  age  is  not  far  from 
fifteen  years.  Among  them  the  boys  predominate  in  number  by 
twenty-eight,  there  being  one  hundred  and  thirty-nine  boys  and  one 
hundred  and  eleven  girls.  Of  these  children,  eleven  boys  and  six 
girls  have  died.  The  sex  of  six  deceased  children  is  not  known. 

At  least  two  of  us  have  reached  the  grandfather  class.  This 
honor  roll,  which  must  grow  from  now  on,  is  headed  by  Keeler, 
with  Chase  a  close  second. 

It  is  somewhat  startling  to  those  who  have  gone  through  the 
years  without  realizing  how  many  of  them  have  slipped  by,  to  look 
over  the  list  of  the  sons  of  '87  who  have  entered  Yale.  Eighteen 
have  entered  and  five  have  graduated.  Lee's  son  (who  bears  his 
mother's  name,  Jerome)  was  the  first  of  these,  graduating  from 
Sheff  in  1910,  followed  by  Pettee's  son,  Allen,  from  Academic  in 
1911.  John  Hugus  Caldwell  (son  of  Vic  Caldwell),  1912,  and 
Albert  Emmett  Kent,  1913,  followed;  and  every  one  who  knows 
anything  of  Yale's  recent  football  history,  knows  that  Henry 
Holman  Ketcham  graduated  in  1914,  and  was  captain  of  the 
Eleven  in  his  Senior  year. 

In  the  Class  of  1915  is  Thomas  Thacher  Kent  and  among  the 
ex-members  of  that  Class  appears  the  name  of  John  Schade  Norton. 
In  1916  are  four  whose  names  indicate  to  us  their  parentage:  George 
Griswold  Haven,  3d,  Huntington  Tomlinson  Morse,  Franklin  Head 
Perkins,  and  Norman  Penney  among  the  ex-members.  The  1917 
roll  discloses  the  following  names :  Victor  Bush  Caldwell,  Jr.,  Wal- 
lace Graham  Corwin,  Frederick  Brereton  Diehl,  William  Kent  and 
Charles  Patterson  Penney,  while  in  '17  Sheff  is  Stuart  Hill  Caldwell 
(son  of  Ernest  L.).  Thomas  Penney,  Jr.,  is  in  the  Class  of  1918. 

The  reasons  why  John  Rogers'  son  has  not  entered  Yale  have 


TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  AFTER  15 

been  made  manifest  to  those  who  read  his  letter  to  the  Alumni 
Weekly,  on  the  defects  in  the  Yale  curriculum. 

The  occupations  of  our  men  change  even  less  than  their  resi- 
dences. The  law  occupies  more  than  any  other  one  profession  or 
occupation  and  without  actual  comparison  of  figures  it  seems  that 
a  smaller  proportion  of  us  are  occupying  political  or  judicial 
positions  of  importance  than  is  the  case  with  many  classes. 

The  great  body  of  the  Class  are  filling  their  places  in  the  world 
usefully,  successfully,  contentedly,  but  inconspicuously,  save  as 
many  of  them  are  conspicuous  in  their  several  communities. 

We  have  two  congressmen  who  have  stood  the  test  of  more  than 
one  election;  a  number  of  minor  judgeships;  from  time  to  time  a 
member  appears  on  the  roll  of  some  state  legislature,  and  one 
member,  Anderson,  has  exercised  very  important  functions  in  the 
Department  of  State  at  Washington,  and  since  the  outbreak  of  the 
European  war,  in  connection  with  the  American  Embassy  in 
London. 

Our  members  of  college  faculties  are  as  they  have  been  for  some 
years,  except  for  that  increment  of  reputation  and  usefulness  which 
comes  with  more  mature  experience:  Phelps,  Corwin  and  H.  Ferris 
in  Yale  Academic,  Sheff  and  the  School  of  Medicine,  respectively; 
Brownson,  dean  of  the  faculty  of  the  College  of  the  City  of  New 
York;  Setchell,  an  authority  of  world-wide  reputation  in  his  line, 
at  the  University  of  California;  Pomeroy,  teaching  law  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois  at  Urbana. 

Several  of  our  medical  men  are  connected  with  the  faculties  of 
medical  schools  in  connection  with  their  general  professional  duties. 

The  extent  to  which  '87  men  have  written  for  publication  may  be 
better  gathered  from  the  somewhat  extensive  bibliography  which 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  book,  than  from  any  passing  reference  to 
such  publications  here. 

Reference  should  be  made  here  to  the  fact  that  by  the  gift  of 
a  member  of  '87,  two  rooms  in  the  new  Wright  Dormitory  bear  the 
names  of  deceased  classmates — one  the  name  of  Albert  Gay  Hunt 
and  the  other  of  the  Curtis  brothers. 


REMINISCENCES  AND  CHANGES 
1883-87—1912-14 

BY  ROBERT  N.  CORWIN 
Haec  jam  meminisse  juvat 

Our  obdurate  Secretary  has  asked  me  to  record  the  changes  which 
have  taken  place  at  Yale  since  that  era  of  travail  and  triumph  which 
reached  its  culmination  in  1883-87.  In  a  weak,,  unguarded  moment 
I  consented,  and  contracted  for  the  future  delivery  of  the  goods 
requested.  Now  I  find  that  if  our  XXVennial  Report  is  to  see  the 
light  of  day  before  our  next  reunion  this  obligation  must  be  met. 

I  wish  that  his  Secretarial  Nibs  had  assigned  the  task  to  one 
whose  coign  of  observation  were  further  removed  from  the  scene  of 
action,  for  introspection  and  self-examination  may  easily  blunt  the 
judgment  as  well  as  the  pen,  whereas  many  purveyors  of  news — 
the  Alumni  Weekly,  the  Yale  Review  and  alumni  dinners — have 
brought  to  your  doors  and  your  ears  frequent  and  vivid  reports  and 
pictures  of  the  doings  at  Yale.  However,  there  is  my  promise,  and 
I  must,  willy-nilly,  have  a  go  at  it. 

I  shall  not  attempt  to  make  this  record  a  learned  treatise  on 
educational  creeds  and  practices,  or  college  management  and  effi- 
ciency. The  period  to  be  recalled  has  been  one  of  great  educa- 
tional unrest  and  experimentation.  It  has  witnessed  some  of  the 
most  radical  and  far-reaching  movements  of  modern  times.  Even 
a  short  account  of  these  and  of  Yale's  relation  to  them  might 
prove  an  interesting  if  not  a  valuable  contribution  to  knowledge, 
but  my  tale  must  limit  itself  to  a  record  of  such  matters  only  as 
concern  the  history  or  interest  of  the  Class  of  '87.  I  will  accord- 
ingly try  to  recall  the  changes  of  most  interest  and  will  take  up 
matters  in  their  natural  order,  that  is,  in  the  order  in  which  they 
occur  to  me.  The  recording  of  the  contrast  between  what  was  and 
what  is  will  necessarily  involve  some  reminiscences. 

Our  first  and  liveliest  interest  is  probably  in  the  subsequent  fate 
of  the  faculty  of  that  critical  period  in  history,  1883  to  1887.  It 
is  the  personal  element  in  our  instruction  which  appeals  to  us 


18  TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  '87 

first,,  last  and  always.  Our  memories  constantly  recur  to  those 
men  who  with  much  wisdom  and  infinite  patience  guided  our 
faltering  footsteps  along  a  path  which  was  narrow,  if  not  always 
straight.  The  lapse  of  time,  however,  though  it  be  but  a  mere 
philosophical  concept,  has  placed  us  in  a  peculiar  dual  relation  to 
our  late  teachers.  In  our  student  days  they  were  far  removed  from 
us  both  in  age  and  in  station;  but  more  than  three  decades  have 
been  posted  up  in  the  books  since  we  were  first  haled  into  their 
presence,  and  we  are  now  almost  contemporaries  of  the  hardy 
survivors  of  that  band.  Our  pictures  of  these  men  are  therefore 
frequently  out  of  drawing,  no  doubt,  and  our  judgments  filled  with 
anachronisms  which  date  from  undergraduate  days.  Moreover, 
during  the  long  period  of  our  post-curriculum  activities,  ideals  and 
methods  of  instruction  have  undergone  much  change,  for  better  or 
for  worse.  Nothing  is  therefore  further  from  the  purpose  of  this 
sketch  than  to  pass  final  judgment  on  the  character  or  work  of 
those  men  who  bore  with  us  for  four  long  years. 

The  Gentle  Reader  for  whom  this  tale  is  told  will  also  under- 
stand that  the  discarding  of  cumbersome  collegiate  titles  is 
prompted  by  no  disrespect.  In  our  daily  intercourse  we  used  to 
use  only  the  "given"  name,  and  that  will  be  used  here. 

Of  the  men  to  whom  the  First  Division  recited  and  the  Sixth 
reported  "not  prepared,"  there  are  "only  a  few  more  left"  as 
active  members  of  the  faculty.  Only  Beers,  Dana  (Eddy),  Beebe, 
Hadley  and  Reynolds  have  survived  the  importunities  of  the 
Carnegie  Pension  Fund  and  the  rigors  of  their  profession. 

Of  Mr.  Hadley,  who  led  us  through  "Progress  and  Poverty,"  and 
who  gave  daily  evidences  of  a  mastery  of  his  subject  and  a  unique 
brilliancy  in  teaching  it,  it  is  unnecessary  to  speak,  as  his  later 
career  is  a  matter  of  public  record.  My  only  regret  in  connection 
with  the  course  is  that  some  of  us  learned  so  well  the  latter  part 
of  it.  Ah,  well !  even  poverty  has  its  lessons.  In  the  old  Progress 
and  Poverty  days,  Mr.  Hadley  had  but  recently  been  made  pro- 
fessor of  political  and  social  science.  As  tutor  and  instructor  he 
had  taught  earlier  classes  German,  Greek  and  logic,  and  could  do 
so  today  if  need  be. 

Beers  (it  was  Zwei  in  our  day,  but  the  amount  has  been  cut 
down  somewhat,  I  am  informed)  is  one  of  the  most  productive  of 
Yale's  prolific  English  faculty,  and  writes  verse  or  prose  equally 


REMINISCENCES  AND  CHANGES  19 

well.  He  has  a  knowledge  of  many  languages  and  literatures  and 
seems  to  possess  some  divining  rod  for  detecting  what  is  best  in 
and  among  books.  For  students  possessed  of  that  rare  passion,  a 
thirst  for  knowledge,  he  has  been  and  still  is  a  real  guide,  philoso- 
pher and  friend.  If  a  lot  of  us  had  sensed  the  beams  which  were  in 
our  own  eyes,  rather  than  taken  advantage  of  the  mote  in  those  of  our 
instructor,  and  if  we,  in  that  old  Lyceum  lecture  room,  had  not  let 
Tuffy  recite  for  Alec,  or  Doc  Knight  personate  Sam,  not  so  many 
of  us  would  have  to  slyly  consult  a  book  of  reference  when  our 
young  sons  ask  us  whether  Chaucer  wrote  the  "Merry  Wives  of 
Windsor"  or  the  "Wife  of  Bath." 

Dana,  the  younger  of  the  Danae,  Eddy,  to  distinguish  him  from 
his  learned  father,  is  still  as  active  as  ever,  and  only  those  who 
have  seen  him  in  action  or  been  in  action  under  him  will  under- 
stand the  full  significance  of  that  statement.  He  was  the  livest 
wire  with  which  we  had  come  in  contact  to  date.  The  atmosphere 
of  his  classroom  was  surcharged  with  force.  I  doubt  whether  any 
class  of  our  day  had  better  instruction  in  physics.  His  statements 
and  demonstrations  were  lucid  and  convincing.  He  always  insisted 
upon  clear  thinking  and  concise  presentation,  but  showed  us  also 
that  a  teacher  may  be  most  considerate  and  yet  forceful.  The 
discomfiture,  which  he  visited  upon  those  whose  exposure  to  the 
lesson  had  not  been  sufficient  to  leave  a  clear  picture,  was  accom- 
plished by  methods  as  skillful  as  those  of  the  great  Greek,  who 
has  remained  the  prototype  of  all  succeeding  schoolmasters. 

Reynolds,  for  whom  we  also  had  an  affectionate  cognomen,  still 
teaches  that  language  which  remains  Greek  to  most  of  us.  He 
still  acts  as  sponsor  for  those  who  are  willing  to  weep  over  those 
ancient  comedies — interspersed  with  Yale  cheers — which  convulsed 
the  ancient  audiences  of  Attica.  Time  has  not  dimmed  those 
qualities  which  endeared  him  to  our  Class. 

Of  our  mathematical  triumvirate,  Richards,  Phillips  and  Beebe, 
Beeb  is  the  sole  active  survivor.  None  of  our  preceptors  made  a 
cleaner  cleavage  than  he  between  what  one  knew  and  what  one  did 
not  know.  Even  an  appearance  of  ignorance  had  to  be  avoided, 
and  a  gulf  yawned  before  him  who  hesitated.  With  what  dangers 
even  the  axioms  of  Euclid  were  beset  in  his  classroom.  His  pons 
asinorum  became  a  veritable  Bridge  of  Sighs,  and  those  who  aspired 
to  trigonometry  were  not  spared  the  horrors  which  hunger  imposed 


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on  ^Eneas  and  his  followers  at  their  landing  upon  the  inhospitable 
shores  of  Italy. 

Te  fames  accisis  coget  dapibus  consumere  mensas. 

We  were  forced  to  devour  his  tables,  and  the  fact  that  they  were 
logarithmic  did  not  render  them  more  palatable  or  more  digestible. 
If  the  efficacy  of  a  potion  may  be  determined  by  the  distaste  of  the 
patient,  Beeb's  Euclid  is  a  universal  panacea. 

Likewise,  our  aerial  journeys  in  his  astronomy  class  were  beset 
with  numerous  engine  troubles  and  not  infrequently  ended  as  did 
the  flight  of  Phaeton  of  old.  We  wondered  how  he  got  his  certificate 
as  sky-pilot.  Our  faith  in  the  words  of  the  Psalmist,  "The  heavens 
declare  the  glory  of  God,  and  the  firmament  showeth  his  handi- 
work," was  sadly  shaken,  and  even  to  the  present  day  the  Milky 
Way  has  no  charms  for  many  of  our  Class. 

Off  and  away  from  the  Cathedra,  Beeb's  charm  and  wit  are  the 
envy  of  his  colleagues.  He  is  a  most  genial  host,  a  true  friend 
and  a  great  doer  of  good  works. 

Dicky  Richards,  the  good  friend  of  all  athletes  and  of  other 
mere  men,  and  always  the  first  to  answer  the  S.  O.  S.  call  of  a 
student  in  distress,  retired  from  active  service  in  1906.  His  abrupt 
and  almost  gruff  manner  deceived  no  one  as  to  the  size  of  his 
heart  or  the  alertness  of  his  affections.  He,  together  with  Dean 
Wright,  did  most  to  lay  the  foundation  for  that  better  understand- 
ing and  closer  relation  between  teacher  and  pupil  which  exists  pre- 
eminently here  at  Yale.  His  life  of  great  service  came  to  an  end 
in  1913.  I  wonder  how  many  of  our  Class  could  duplicate  his 
feat,  accomplished  at  about  our  age,  of  walking  across  the  state  of 
Connecticut  between  sunup  and  sundown. 

Andy  Phillips  was  the  only  one  of  our  teachers  who  got  his  edu- 
cation over  in  Sheff,  and  you  can  judge  something  of  the  kind  of 
thing  offered  over  there  in  this  line  by  Andy's  mastery  of  his  sub- 
ject and  his  genial  outlook  on  life.  To  him  even  algebra  had  its 
comic  aspects.  His  enthusiastic  good  nature,  his  cheerfulness  and 
fairness  were  unmatched,  and  he  has  made  every  '87  man  his 
friend  and  debtor.  His  graphics,  with  its  cabinet  of  marvelous 
toys,  trained  to  do  circles,  parabolas,  ellipses,  or  anything  in  the 
mathematical  line,  was  a  delight  to  pupil  and  teacher  alike.  At 
a  later  period,  Andy  was  translated  to  the  deanship  of  the  Grad- 


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uate   School,  and  did  much  to  make  this   a  useful  and   respected 
member  of  our  University  circle. 

Beebe  and  Dicky  insisted  upon  our  climbing  the  tree  of  knowl- 
edge ourselves,  not  only  unaided,  but  not  infrequently  embarrassed 
by  remarks  which  seemed  to  us  irrelevant.  But  Andy  always 
insisted  upon  shaking  down  the  fruit  for  us.  If  need  be,  he  would 
climb  the  tree  himself.  Though  not  in  the  University,  he  is  still  of 
its  circle,  and  is  enjoying  a  life  of  leisure  and  usefulness. 

The  few  wanderlusty  spirits  who  were  venturesome  enough  to 
aspire  to  a  still  higher  phase  of  mathematics,  made  the  acquaintance 
of  Professor  Newton.  His  was  a  familiar  figure  on  the  Campus, 
and,  together  with  the  eccentric  Loomis  and  the  solitary  Gibbs, 
was  regarded  with  that  distant  awe  felt,  by  those  less  favored,  for 
mathematical  genius.  He  died  in  1896.  His  house  on  the  corner 
of  High  and  Elm  is  the  busy  home  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Weekly  and 
of  that  new  and  useful  venture,  the  Yale  University  Press. 

All  of  our  teachers  except  the  quintet  mentioned  have  sought 
other  and  different  fields  of  conquest,  or  have  rested  from  their 
labors  here  as  members  of  the  Order  of  Emeritus,  or  as  members  of 
that  larger  and  more  august  body  for  which  we  are  all  preparing. 
Dear,  saintly  old  President  Porter  died  five  years  after  our  gradu- 
ation. In  our  day  he  was  no  longer  in  the  vigor  of  youth  or  health, 
but  all  of  our  Class  who  came  in  contact  with  him  will  have  the 
pleasantest  recollections  of  his  kindly  face  and  words.  My  scrap- 
book  still  treasures  several  excuses  signed  by  him  without  question 
or  demur.  President  Dwight  bears  his  fourscore  and  some  odd 
years  lightly  and  cheerfully.  His  usefulness  did  not  come  to  an 
end  at  his  retirement  from  the  presidency  in  1899.  He  has  a  very 
warm  place  in  his  heart  for  his  first  Class — a  feeling  which  I  believe 
is  more  than  reciprocated. 

I  will  take  up  the  other  men  more  or  less  as  the}?-  appear  in  the 
catalogue  of  our  day;  since  I  have  consulted  that  work,  this  is  the 
order  in  which  they  occur  to  me. 

Professor  Dana,  Rocksy  for  short,  was  one  of  the  not  very 
numerous  body  of  really  eminent  scholars  before  whose  desks  we 
sat.  To  enumerate  the  great  things  he  has  done  and  written  would 
exceed  the  bounds  of  this  very  elastic  tale.  Under  him  we  got 
glimpses  of  some  of  the  wonders  of  science  at  first-hand.  Pritch 
can  repeat  whole  chapters  of  it  still.  But  we  did  not  hear  much 


TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  '87 


about  a  great  law  promulgated  by  Darwin  and  Wallace  some 
quarter  of  a  century  before,  a  law  whose  chief  evidences  are  said 
to  be  inscribed  in  the  rocks.  We  were  thus  spared  being  con- 
fronted by  the  shades  of  our  remote  ancestors.  He  died,  full  of 
years  and  honors,  in  1895,  one  of  Yale's  great  men  in  science. 

Another  of  these  giants  was  William  Dwight  Whitney.  Most  of 
his  work,  and  all  of  his  undergraduate  work,  was  done  over  in 
darkest  Sheff.  Those  few  of  us  who  were  wise  enough  or  lucky 
enough  to  elect  his  course  in  linguistics  place  great  value  upon  his 
instruction.  Numerous  incumbents  now  occupy  the  settee  vacated  at 
his  death  in  1894. 

Dr.  Sanford,  who,  up  in  stuffy  old  Linonia,  taught  us  the  impor- 
tance of  fresh  air,  and  scared  some  of  us  into  observing  some  of 
the  laws  of  health,  died  in  1896. 

Professor  Robinson,  who  came  over  from  the  Law  School  to 
teach  some  of  us  the  other  kind  of  law,  just  common  law,  left  Yale 
in  1896  to  become  a  professor,  and  later  the  dean  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Law,  in  the  Catholic  University  of  America,  Washington, 
D.  C.,  and  died  in  1912. 

None  of  us  will  soon  forget  the  Websterian  grandeur  and  stately 
Ciceronian  periods  with  which  Cyrus  Northrop  welcomed  us  on 
the  steps  of  Alumni  Hall,  when  Freshmen  first  we  came  to  Yale. 
Later,  in  the  classroom,  he  taught  some  of  us  how  not  to  write 
English.  Though  somewhat  startled  by  his  grande  maniere,  we 
soon  found  that  this  could  not  entirely  disguise  marked  ability, 
and  that  the  bowels  of  mercy  were  not  wanting.  Most  of  you 
know  that  he  left  Yale  at  the  end  of  our  Freshman  year  to  become 
president  of  the  University  of  Minnesota.  He  has  but  recently 
retired  from  this  position,  which  he  honored  and  in  which  he 
gained  deserved  fame,  in  favor  of  another  great  Yale  educator, 
Vincent,  '85.  You  will  also  recall  that,  though  his  first  name  always 
appears  in  print  as  that  of  a  great  magnate  of  the  East,  his  real 
cognomen  was  spelled  and  pronounced  quite  differently. 

Botany  Eaton  taught  Setch  and  some  others  the  language  of 
flowers.  He  was  the  only  one  of  our  professors  who  was  requisi- 
tioned from  the  Sheff  faculty,  and  those  of  you  who  took  this 
course  can  form  some  notion  of  the  degree  of  kindness,  urbanity 
and  scholarship  required  for  membership  in  the  faculty  to  which  he 
belonged.  You  may  not  have  suspected,  however,  that  he  was  an 


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international  authority  on  ferns.  Since  his  death  in  1895,  he  is 
missed  much,  both  as  friend  and  as  colleague. 

Professor  Wheeler  was  a  great  teacher.  We  found  him  in  his 
prime,  and  the  lavishness  with  which  he  used  language  made  even 
the  awkward  squad  of  the  Sixth  Division  sit  up  and  take  a  little 
educational  nutriment.  His  battle  pictures  would  put  a  cinemato- 
graph to  shame.  We  didn't  always  agree  with  him  that  Napoleon 
could  do  no  wrong,  and  England  very  little  right;  and  we  felt 
much  sympathy  for  the  Iron  Duke  after  he  had  been  reduced  to 
scrap  iron;  but  we  recognized  that  Professor  Wheeler  understood 
putting  flesh  and  blood  into  or  onto  the  dry  bones  of  history.  Give 
me  a  partisan  for  my  historian  !  His  retirement  from  active  service 
two  years  ago  terminated  a  long  and  valuable  service. 

I  think  it  doubtful  whether  many  of  you  will  recall  Van  Name, 
for  he  was  the  guardian  of  the  Library.  A  rumor  was  current 
in  our  college  days  that  Alec  Coxe,  during  one  of  his  brainstorms 
of  scholastic  ardor,  seriously  considered  trying  to  make  his  acquaint- 
ance, with  a  view  to  taking  just  one  book  during  his  course,  but 
the  psychological  opportunity  was  somehow  lost,  never  to  return. 
"Yarrow,"  for  him,  still  remains  unvisited.  Mr.  Van  Name  is, 
however,  a  most  approachable  man.  He  built  up,  during  his  incum- 
bency, with  very  limited  resources,  one  of  the  best  working  libraries 
in  the  country.  Just  on  the  side,  he  was  an  authority  on  Japanese. 
He  was  succeeded  in  1905  by  a  mere  youngster  from  the  Class  of 
'86. 

Professor  Dexter  —  better  known,  perhaps,  under  his  stage  name, 
Deiknumi  —  who  as  Secretary  of  the  Corporation  signed  our 
diplomas,  as  he  did  those  of  some  thirty  classes  (1869-1899),  and 
whom  those  of  the  Class  who  visited  the  Library  will  associate 
with  that  institution,  was  professor  of  American  history  in  our  day. 
In  fact,  he  was,  and  has  remained,  its  embodiment.  He  has  earned 
the  gratitude  of  every  alumnus  by  his  untiring  industry  in  making 
the  Library  available  for  use  and  in  preparing  for  publication  many 
annals  of  Yale.  He  has  but  recently  retired  from  active  duty  as 
assistant  librarian.  It  is  believed  of  Mr.  Dexter,  as  it  was  of  his 
colleague  in  Brothers  and  Linonia,  J.  Sumner  Smith  (died,  1903), 
that,  once  seen,  he  never  forgot  face  or  name.  A  memory  like  that 
must  at  times  be  an  uncanny  incumbrance.  I  wonder  that  it  does 
not  induce  insomnia  or  inebriety. 


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One  of  the  last  three  gentlemen  mentioned  was  a  skilled  musi- 
cian. Each  member  of  the  Class  is  given  three  choices — which? 

Professor  Ladd  suffered,  no  doubt,,  from  the  fact  that  he  was 
one  of  the  last  remaining  prescribed  professors.  It  was  recog- 
nized that  "in  Adam's  fall,  we  sinned  all,"  and  that  we  must  be 
redeemed  by  fair  means  or  by  the  study  of  philosophy  and  psy- 
chology. But  the  course  seemed  to  many  well  adapted  to  make 
virtue  odious  and  vice  attractive  and  redemption  at  the  price  offered 
was  rejected.  The  "thingness  of  things"  and  even  the  "thing  in 
itself"  did  not  touch  our  imagination  or  hold  our  attention.  As 
a  laboratory  course  in  ethics,  our  philosophy-psychology  course 
was  a  failure. 

With  Professor  Seymour — whose  capric  brow  gave  us  a  handle 
to  his  name — we  learned  how  woes  numberless  befell  an  ancient 
race  and  city,  because  of  the  wrath  of  Peleus'  son.  We  sulked  with 
Achilles,  debated  with  Agamemnon,  fought  and  fell  with  Hector 
and  wept  for  and  with  Andromache — all  because  that  swell  Paris 
had  selected  as  his  affinity  one  who  had  previous  domestic  obliga- 
tions. After  the  sacred  city  had  succumbed  to  the  strategy  of  the 
wily  Ulysses,  we  left  the  digamma-strewn  battlefield  before  Ilium 
to  follow  the  devious  and  erratic  wanderings  of  this  first  globe- 
trotter. Thus  we  saw  the  cities  of  many  men  and  learned  their 
manners — and  endured  great  suffering  on  the  deep. 

Digamma  was  a  great  and  an  inspiring  teacher.  If  Homer 
nodded,  it  must  have  been  when  he  wasn't  looking.  He  did  yeoman 
service  for  many  years  after  we  left  college,  and  the  University 
suffered  a  great  loss  in  his  death  in  1907. 

Tarbell,  who,  I  hope,  lives  in  blissful  ignorance  of  our  affection- 
ate desk-name  for  him,  was  sometime  instructor  in  Harvard,  and 
was  later  taken  to  Chicago  by  President  Harper,  when  he  initiated 
his  great  enterprise.  Though  occasional  alarm  was  felt  in  the  Class 
lest  in  one  of  his  facial  contortions  he  should  bite  his  ear,  or  that 
he  should  be  unable  to  unravel  the  Gordian  knot  into  which  he  was 
constantly  twisting  his  supple  legs,  we  admired  the  ability  with 
which  he  handled  his  subject  and  the  fairness  with  which  he  handled 
us.  I  think  he  was  one  of  our  best  instructors,  and  has  more  than 
made  good  in  his  new  field  of  service. 

Bridgman  was  another  who  exposed  us  to  Greek.  I  am  confident 
that  every  member  of  the  Class  can  still  repeat  parts  of  Aristoph- 


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anes.  Soon  after  our  day  he  became  professor  of  Greek  at  Miami 
University,  and  now  fills  the  same  chair  at  Lake  Forest  University. 

Ambrose  Tighe,  better  known  as  Ambrosial  Tiggy,  was  one  of 
the  real  inspirations  of  our  course.  None  of  us  will  forget  his 
"tracts,"  or  our  astonishment  at  a  tutor's  going  so  far  outside  the 
text-book  to  make  his  course  interesting  and  instructive.  Until  he 
had  expounded  his  tract  on  the  subjunctive  mood,  many  of  us  had 
supposed  that  this  mood  was  a  device  concocted  by  the  grammarians 
at  the  instigation  of  the  Evil  One,  for  ensnaring  and  annoying  the 
poor  benighted  student  who  was  trying  to  find  some  rhyme  or 
reason  in  the  dead  languages.  I  have  preserved  the  tracts  and 
they  are  still  well  worth  reading.  Tiggy  has  deserted  the  class- 
room for  the  courtroom,  and  is  now  a  distinguished  member  of  the 
Minnesota  Bar. 

Alfred  L.  Ripley,  Rip  by  preference — though  as  a  member  of  the 
Corporation  he  might  not  stand  for  it  now — left  the  professor's 
career  soon  after  our  graduation  and  is  now  the  head  of  one  of 
the  largest  banking  houses  of  Boston.  I  can  think  of  no  greater 
financial  extremes  than  between  his  former  and  his  present  estate. 
Both  nature  and  experience  have  fitted  him  to  be  what  he  is,  one 
of  Yale's  wisest  advisers. 

Marrion  Wilcox  flitted  across  our  path  in  Sophomore  year,  leaving 
some  facts  about  German  and  a  faint  memory  behind.  This  lan- 
guage being  a  mere  elective,  and  therefore  somewhat  outside  the 
pale,  was  not  taken  very  seriously  either  by  teacher  or  pupil.  Since 
leaving  Yale  at  the  end  of  our  Junior  year,  he  has  spent  much  time 
in  travel  and  study,  and  has  written  much,  especially  on  Latin- 
American  affairs. 

A.  B.  Nichols,  who  followed  him  in  this  work,  impressed  us  as  a 
more  virile  character  and  left  a  deeper  impression.  He  was  a 
master  of  his  subject,  and  a  good  teacher.  His  taste  for  what  was 
good  in  literature  was  keen,  and  he  gave  the  Class  some  of  it. 
After  leaving  Yale  in  1887  he  was  sometime  instructor  at  Harvard, 
and  later  became  the  head  of  the  Department  of  German  in  Sim- 
mons College,  Boston.  We  were  all  much  saddened  to  hear  of  his 
death  a  short  time  ago. 

A  career  of  great  promise  was  interrupted  in  the  death  of  Pro- 
fessor McLaughlin  in  1893.  Some  of  us  had  English  composition 
with  him  in  Sophomore  year.  Though  he  did  not  reach  all  of  his 


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students,  those  few  whom  he  did  get  hold  of  found  great  returns 
from  their  work  with  him.  He  attempted  a  most  difficult  feat — 
to  impart  to  his  students  a  taste  for  good  literature — and  in  view 
of  the  difficulty  of  the  task,  the  results  were  considerable.  He 
should  be  given  credit  for  a  notable  share  in  the  Revival  of  Letters 
here  at  Yale. 

Death  likewise  terminated,  at  an  early  date,  the  careers  of 
two  of  our  Sophomore  instructors,  Ernest  Whitney  (died,  1893), 
with  whom  we  studied  English  literature,  and  Lewis  (died,  1887), 
with  whom  some  of  us  worked  over  the  Frogs  and  Clouds.  Lewis 
gave  evidence  to  those  who  knew  him  of  brilliancy  somewhat 
touched  with  eccentricity.  Whitney  impressed  a  larger  number  with 
his  sterling  qualities,  though  he  was  hampered  by  a  wretched 
text-book. 

The  order  in  which  the  faculty  were  to  appear  before  us  seems 
to  have  become  somewhat  disordered,  but  if  one's  memory  will  not 
follow  the  order  of  precedence  as  laid  down  in  the  catalogue,  what 
can  one  do? 

William  Graham  Sumner  had  a  large  share  in  the  making  of  the 
Yale  man  of  today,  and  left  a  strong  imprint  on  every  man  who 
came  in  contact  with  him.  If  there  is  such  a  sprite  as  the  Yale 
Spirit,  Billy  Sumner  furnished  more  of  its  ingredients  than  any 
other  of  our  teachers.  But  it  is  needless  to  speak  of  him;  we  all 
have  a  vivid  picture  of  him  and  shall  not  soon  forget  his  manner 
of  speech  and  mental  attitude.  There  was  no  mere  bandying  of 
words  or  marking  of  time  in  his  classroom.  The  student  was  con- 
fronted with  certain  plain  facts  and  was  made  to  eliminate  all 
irrelevant  matter  and  to  draw  the  logical  inferences,  no  matter 
whither  such  inferences  led  or  whether  they  were  agreeable  or 
otherwise. 

Billy  Sumner  had  little  respect  and  no  fear  for  majorities, 
whether  within  the  faculty  or  without.  In  his  search  for  truth  he 
rushed  in  where  others  of  his  colleagues  feared  to  tread,  and  his 
spirit  of  research  and  his  fearlessness  in  facing  results  gained  for 
him  our  respect  and  gratitude — feelings  which  have  grown  with  the 
years.  Yale  rarely  departs  from  the  rule  of  not  granting  honorary 
degrees  to  members  of  her  own  faculty,  but  she  did  herself  honor 
in  giving  to  Sumner  the  degree  of  LL.D.  upon  his  retirement  in 
1909.  He  died  in  1910. 


28  TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  '81 

We  did  not  realize  how  numerous  and  varied  were  Professor 
Sumner's  writings.  The  Yale  University  Press  is  doing  a  great 
public  service  in  bringing  out  some  of  his  most  timely  essays.  I 
should  advise  every  '87  man  to  read  that  little  gem  of  an  auto- 
biography in  his  Earth  Hunger  collection  of  essays. 

Professor  A.  W.  Wright,  Buffalo  to  us,  distinguished  by  his 
bison-like  mane  from  a  colleague  whose  locks  were  conspicuous  by 
their  absence,  was  in  our  heyday  professor  of  molecular  physics  and 
chemistry.  He  presided  with  courteous  and  scholarly  dignity  over 
the  then  new  but  now  old  Sloane  Laboratory.  He  was,  in  fact, 
the  beau  ideal  of  considerate  urbanity.  Yet,  young  reprobates  that 
we  were,  hardened  by  seven  years  of  toil  in  and  about  the  Roman 
Forum  or  under  the  shadow  of  the  Acropolis,  and  stuffed  with 
unchristian  morals  and  the  prejudices  of  the  ancient  pagans,  we 
were  made  well-nigh  impervious  to  the  introduction  of  that  form 
of  knowledge  which  he  professed  and  practiced.  We  saw,  with 
eyes  that  saw  not,  experiments  performed  with  unmatched  skill; 
and  we  heard,  with  ears  that  heard  not,  many  marvels  of  science; 
but  we  did  not  understand  its  language.  It  was  too  remote  from 
our  previous  training  and  experience. 

Laboratory  instruction  and  practice  have  now  rendered  it  unneces- 
sary to  make  such  heavy  drafts  upon  the  credulity  and  imagination 
of  the  student.  It  was  hard  for  us  to  become  enthusiastic  or  excited 
over  the  statement  that  if  a  certain  amount  from  Exhibit  A  (held 
up  in  plain  sight)  were  applied  to  a  certain  amount  from  Exhibit 
B  (likewise  exposed  to  view),  a  certain  accurately  described  third 
thing,  usually  designated  a  reaction  or  an  explosion,  would  cer- 
tainly ensue.  But  Buffalo  accomplished  much,  considering  the 
material,  both  physical  and  mental,  with  which  he  had  to  deal.  He 
retired  from  active  service  in  1906.  The  curtailment  of  his  dis- 
tinguishing feature  preceded  by  some  years  that  of  his  activity. 

Speaking  of  beards  turns  my  memory  to  Jay  Seaver,*  who  initi- 
ated us  into  the  mysterious  uses  and  benefits  of  Indian  clubs,  parallel 
bars,  flying  rings  and  other  instruments  of  bigotry  and  virtue  at 
the  Gym.  This  beard,  which  in  the  days  of  Edwin  Lear  would 
have  inspired  a  rhyme,  did  not  seem  to  interfere  with  gymnastic 
performances  which  were  considered  marvelous,  nor  did  it  quite 
conceal  a  personality  which  was  always  considerate  and  helpful. 

*  Since  the  above  was  written,  Dr.  Seaver's  death  occurred,  May  6,  1915. 


TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  '87 


Seaver  was  a  strong  and  helpful  influence  in  making  the  body  sound 
and  the  mind  sane.  He  was  long  actively  employed  in  the  enlarged 
gymnastic  sphere  of  the  new  Gymnasium,,  and  is  now  a  prosperous 
physician  of  Chautauqua,  N.  Y.  At  Chautauqua,  he  has  probably 
done  as  much  as  any  American  to  spread  the  gospel  of  health. 

In  our  day,  Professor  Knapp  taught  most  of  that  numerous 
progeny  of  languages  which  claim  relationship  with  Latin,  in  vary- 
ing degrees  of  consanguinity:  French,  Old  French,  Proven9al, 
Spanish  and  Italian.  We  always  envied  the  members  of  his  French 
classes  their  easily  earned  high  grades.  They  were  not  put  through 
any  third  degree  inquisition,  and  their  marks  represented,  it  would 
seem,  not  so  much  any  record  of  accomplishment  as  an  ideal  or 
complimentary  grade.  He  joined  the  Harper  exodus  to  Chicago 
in  1892,  and  died  in  Spain,  I  believe,  in  1908. 

Bendelari,  who  assisted  Professor  Knapp  in  the  management  of 
his  numerous  brood  of  languages,  left  Yale  for  Harvard  soon  after 
our  graduation.  At  last  accounts  he  was  editorial  writer  on  one 
of  the  large  New  York  dailies. 

I  have  spoken  of  some  of  the  many  who  tried  to  make  Latinists 
of  us.  Tracy  Peck  was  always  de  jure  a  Roman,  and  he  is  now 
become  one  de  facto.  Upon  his  retirement  in  1908,  he  hit  one  of  the 
numerous  trails  for  the  Eternal  City,  and  has  since  then  made 
Rome  his  home.  He  is  a  willing,  tireless  and  learned  guide  to 
acquaintances  and  friends  making  the  Italian  journey.  He  was  a 
good  teacher,  and  Pliny,  with  his  interpretation,  seemed  almost 
modernly  human. 

What  muse  of  pedagogy  ever  prompted  Baldy  to  elect  to  inter- 
pret that  wily  and  licentious  Horatius?  One  cannot  imagine  two 
natures  less  alike  or  more  naturally  unsympathetic  than  that  of 
the  author  and  the  exegete.  As  well  ask  a  Francis  of  Assisi  to 
interpret  a  Byron  or  Walt  Whitman.  There  was  every  evidence 
of  scholarship  in  the  instruction ;  likewise  the  dean  not  infrequently 
broke  through  the  old  scholastic  traditions  with  extra  textual  com- 
ment, which  gave  us  some  insight  into  his  own  quick  sensibilities 
and  deep  feeling.  But  I  fear  that  most  of  us  finished  the  course 
with  the  notion  that  Horace  was  a  kind  of  prototype  of  Isaac  Watts 
and  John  Greenleaf  Whittier.  Most  of  the  characteristics  which 
have  made  him  a  poet  for  all  time  remained  hidden  under  unbroken 
seals. 


TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  '87 


Though  we  liked  Baldy  as  a  teacher,  it  was  as  dean  that  he  came 
into  his  own.  His  deanship  began  with  our  Sophomore  year,  and 
he  retired  to  the  sidelines  twenty-five  years  later.  No  man  could 
have  preserved  a  juster  balance  between  a  sane  head  and  a  big 
heart,  though  the  dictates  of  the  one  and  the  promptings  of  the 
other  must  often  have  been  in  opposite  balances.  He  is  now  the 
unofficial  college  adviser,  accessible  at  all  times  to  both  old  and 
young.  He  is  just  now  aiding  and  abetting  in  the  establishment  of 
that  rival  institution  in  New  London,  for  the  sex  which  we  love 
in  spite  of  its  recent  extravagances  and  vagaries,  but  do  not  admit 
to  our  own  undergraduate  privileges. 

Frank  Abbott,  another  Latinist,  had  us  in  Tacitus.  He  was 
clear-headed  and  made  the  Germania  interesting.  President  Harper 
tapped  him  first  for  Chicago,  and  for  some  time  he  was  the  whole 
faculty  of  the  University  of  Chicago.  He  must  look  with  much 
pride  upon  what  has  grown  from  this  little  grain  of  mustard  seed. 
However,  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  chair  of  Latin  in  Princeton 
University  some  years  ago,  and  is  now  trying  to  bring  some  of  the 
Princeton  men  up  to  the  moral  and  intellectual  standard  of  the 
average  Yale  man.  He  is  a  prolific  writer  in  many  learned  subjects 
connected  with  the  Latin  tongue. 

Oscar  H.  Cooper,  called  Thanatos,  to  distinguish  him  from  his 
colleague,  Minnehaha,  Laughing  Waters,  did  not  try  to  belittle  to 
us  the  woes  of  this  world  or  those  of  the  language  which  he  pro- 
fessed. Perhaps  he  saw  in  his  running  mate  the  dangers  which 
may  lurk  in  a  smile.  Tutor  Cooper  has  not  only  successfully  evaded 
his  namesake,  but  has  done  much  to  educate  that  prodigious  state  of 
Texas.  He  was  until  recently  president  of  Simmons  College, 
Abilene,  Texas,  and  stands  high  in  the  educational  councils  of 
the  Southwest. 

Waters  began  his  tutorial  career  with  our  admission  to  college 
and  terminated  it  with  our  graduation,  but  he  seems  to  have  gotten 
on  swimmingly  without  us.  He,  too,  has  been  a  college  president, 
Wells  College  (no  men  admitted).  At  an  earlier  period  he  was  a 
professor  in  the  University  of  Cincinnati,  and  at  a  later  period  and 
until  now  professor  of  Greek  in  New  York  University.  Both  he 
and  Cooper  have  had  sons  in  college. 

Mark  Bailey,  the  discoverer  of  Lincoln — at  least  here  in  the 
East — the  teacher  who  planted  the  fertile  seeds  of  eloquence  in 


REMINISCENCES  AND  CHANGES  83 

Jim  Sheffield  and  some  others,  completed  his  fifty  years  of  service 
at  Yale  in  1905.  Since  his  death  in  1911  we  very  much  miss  his 
picturesque  figure  and  courtly  greeting. 


The  changes  in  the  physical  plant  of  the  University  are  the  most 
obvious  and  the  best  known,  and  therefore  probably  the  least  inter- 
esting, yet  some  of  these  represent  changes  of  policy,  as  well  as 
of  size. 

To  turn  first  to  our  ancestral  home,  the  old  Campus — within  its 
four  streets  were  confined  nearly  all  of  the  activities  of  our  college 
life,  but  there  are  now  not  one  but  several  campuses,  though  not 
given  this  name.  The  two  squares  directly  north  of  the  Campus 
are  owned,  or  at  least  controlled,  by  the  University.  The  square 
nearest  the  old  Campus  holds  White,  Berkeley,  Haughton  and 
Fayerweather  Halls.  These  new  and  well-equipped  dormitories 
house  a  very  large  proportion  of  the  upperclassmen,  and  this  has 
changed  somewhat  the  center  of  gravity  as  we  knew  it.  Fayer- 
weather Hall  likewise  contains  the  Yale  Station  post  office,  with  a 
box  corresponding  to  each  college  room,  and  the  enormously 
enlarged  and  more  active  cooperative  store,  which  had  its  small 
beginning  in  our  time.  These  halls  surround  the  Berkeley  Oval, 
the  upper  end  of  which  is  filled  by  the  Lampson  Lyceum,  containing 
numerous  seminary  rooms,  and  rooms  for  recitations  and  lectures. 
On  the  east,  this  square  also  holds  the  renovated  and  rechristened 
Divinity  Halls,  to  which  has  just  been  added  the  beautiful  Day 
Missions  Library.  With  the  square  next  beyond  on  the  north,  con- 
taining as  it  does,  the  administration  hall  and  the  Bicentennial 
buildings,  you  are  all  more  or  less  familiar,  both  from  picture  and 
from  story. 

These  last  adjoin  the  two  squares  occupied  by  the  Sheffield 
buildings  and  activities.  Beyond,  at  the  head  of  what  many  think 
the  most  beautiful  street  in  the  world,  Hillhouse  Avenue,  on  the 
finest  and  one  of  the  largest  squares,  now  the  property  of  the  Uni- 
versity, are  the  beginnings  of  what  promises  to  be  one  of  the  most 
stately  groups  of  university  laboratories  in  the  country.  Two 
magnificent  structures  are  already  completed:  the  new  Sloane 
Laboratory,  where  all  the  physics,  whether  of  the  Academic  or 
the  Sheffield  variety,  is  taught  and  studied;  and  the  Osborn  Memo- 


34  TWENTY-FIFE  YEARS  OF  '87 

rial  Laboratories,  which  last  offer  a  home  for  most  of  the  branches 
of  study  which  go  under  the  name  of  biology. 

Just  beyond  the  Pierson-Sage  Square,  on  the  beautiful  estate  of 
the  late  Professor  Marsh,  of  paleontological  fame,  is  located  the 
School  of  Forestry,  one  of  the  most  active  and  useful  additions  to 
the  faculties.  The  first  chief  of  the  United  States  Bureau  was  its 
co-founder.  Its  first  dean  became  the  second  head  of  this  great 
bureau.  The  School  has  had  a  large  share  in  equipping  both  the 
national  bureau  and  those  of  the  states. 

But  a  glance  at  the  map  and  plan  that  preface  the  University 
catalogue,  which  is  one  of  the  perquisites  of  every  graduate,  will 
be  a  much  simpler  and  more  convincing  evidence  of  the  present 
extent  of  Yale's  material  growth  than  the  most  explicit  and  accu- 
rate description. 

To  presto-change  our  attention  back  to  the  Campus:  Of  the 
thirteen  buildings  on  the  Campus,  only  six — the  Art  School,  the 
old  Library,  Durfee  and  Farnam  Halls,  Battell  Chapel  and  South 
Middle — were  completed  before  our  admission  to  college.  Since 
that  day  six  new  buildings  have  appeared  and  a  still  larger  number 
have  vanished.  The  only  relic  of  the  old  Brick  Row,  which  housed 
most  of  us  at  some  time  or  other  during  our  college  course,  is  South 
Middle,  rechristened  Connecticut  Hall.  In  this,  now  the  hub  of 
the  College,  are  located  the  administration  offices,  where  the  Dean 
dispenses  justice  and  the  Registrar  marks.  The  stones  of  Vander- 
bilt,  Welch,  Phelps,  Wright  and  Osborn  have  no  sermons  for  us, 
but  it  might  be  added  that  Osborn  Hall  has  achieved  the  unique 
distinction  of  creating  very  widespread  comment,  none  of  it 
favorable. 

The  old  Library  has  suffered  various  accessions  in  various 
styles  of  architecture.  It  was  found  that  there  were  certain  archi- 
tectural styles  still  lacking  on  the  Campus.  This  defect  has  now  been 
remedied.  An  inference  from  this,  however,  that  the  Campus  has 
lost  beauty  and  charm  would  be  wholly  wrong.  The  Library  is 
said  to  contain  a  million  volumes,  and  there  are  a  hundred  thousand 
more  books  in  the  various  departmental  libraries;  yet,  not  satisfied 
with  this  enormous  accumulation,  the  librarians  keep  adding  some 
twenty  thousand  a  year  to  the  collection.  In  our  day  the  notion 
prevailed  that  the  Library  was  a  place  for  preserving  books,  but 
now  this  institution  has  become  a  very  active  agent  in  getting  books 


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35 


WRIGHT  HALL 
Erected  in  1912  in  Honor  of  Former  Dean  Wright 


and  information  into  the  hands  of  the  faculty  and  heads  of  the 
students. 

Likewise  Battell  and  the  Art  School  have  each  grown  a  new 
wing.  Across  High  Street  from  the  old  Library  is  Billy  Kent's 
laboratory,  where  some  of  the  most  efficient  work  in  the  University 
is  done.  Sloane  Physics  Laboratory,  which  in  our  day  was  the 
latest  word  in  laboratories  and  in  which  we  recited  to  Buffalo 
Wright  between  snowballs,  has  been  degraded  to  the  level  of  a 
mere  office  building.  The  old  Gym,  vividly  remembered  for  its 
"two  and  seventy  stenches,"  has  been  completely  disguised,  and  is 
now  addressed  under  the  name  of  Herrick  Hall.  It  has  worked  up 
into  the  position  of  Laboratory  of  Psychological  Research. 

Dwight  Hall  had  hardly  got  under  good  headway  in  our  time. 


36  TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  '87 

It  is  now  the  center  of  the  religious  work  not  only  of  the  Campus,, 
but  of  the  University  as  a  whole,  and  has  its  counterpart  for  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  Byers  Memorial  Hall.  Each  of  these 
has  an  excellent  library,  reading-rooms,  grill  rooms,  and  rooms  for 
billiards,  pool  and  lounging.  The  amount  and  variety  of  work 
done  by  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  is  enormous.  One  of  its  most  important 
functions  is  to  take  the  Freshmen  in  hand  as  soon  as  the  June 
examinations  for  admission  are  completed,  and  to  start  them 
properly  upon  their  university  careers.  Its  most  unique  achieve- 
ment is  the  establishment  and  support  of  that  distant  outpost  in 
China,  which  bears  the  same  name  as  the  Alma  Mater. 

Wright  Hall,  the  monument  to  the  friend  of  every  Yale  man 
of  the  last  three  decades,  has  superseded  old  Alumni  Hall,  the 
Waterloo  of  so  many  young  hopefuls.  This  hall  is  now  the  home 
of  the  Freshman  class,  and  just  now  has  several  sons  of  '87  as 
tenants.  It,  like  most  of  the  other  halls,  both  old  and  new,  has 
real  private  baths  and  other  things  to  match.  Isn't  that  modern 
decadence  with  a  vengeance?  Eighty-seven  can  remember  a  time 
when  cleanliness,  however  close  to  godliness,  was  made  a  rather 
inaccessible  elective.  The  humiliation  of  a  bath  in  the  old  Gym, 
or  in  West  Divinity,  was  no  doubt  good  for  our  hard  hearts. 

Peabody  Museum  still  remains  in  its  pristine  ugliness,  but  it 
shelters  many  unique  and  invaluable  collections,  gathered  by  that 
Nimrod  of  science,  Professor  Marsh,  the  friend  of  Colonel  Cody 
and  Sitting  Bull.  He  could  have  given  A.  Coxe  pointers  on  horses. 
His  record  covers  many  centuries,  if  not  millenniums,  and  in  his 
collection  are  those  having  anywhere  from  one  to  five  toes,  while 
I  doubt  whether  Alec  can  show  any  with  more  than  one. 


These  and  other  changes  in  the  physical  geography  and  indus- 
trial centers  of  the  University  have  involved  some  changes  in  the 
workaday  life  of  the  undergraduate.  All  Freshmen  now  room  in 
Wright  Hall  or  close  at  hand  in  the  college  dormitories  on  York 
Street.  The  Sophomore  Gold  Coast,  which  arose  shortly  after  our 
day,  is  no  more,  so  that  practically  all  students  are  housed  on  the 
old  Campus  or  one  of  the  new  ones. 

In  spite  of  the  fact  that  the  old  Campus  and  the  new  ones  have 
been  much  beautified  with  grass  and  shrubs  and  walks,  much  greater 


REMINISCENCES  AND  CHANGES  37 

liberty  is  allowed  in  the  matter  of  ball,  both  base-  and  foot-.  This 
relaxation  in  the  rules  has  only  been  possible  since  our  Dead 
Game  Shots  from  California  now  come  to  us  somewhat  better  tamed 
and  broken. 

In  some  respects  college  life  would  have  no  further  charm  for 
some  chosen  few  of  us.  Gamma  Nu  and  the  Sophomore  societies 
have  gone  the  way  of  the  Brothers  and  Linonia,  without  leaving 
any  such  useful  memorials.  This,  together  with  the  establishment 
of  three  new  Junior  societies,  has  involved  some  revision  of  the 
elections  and  practices  of  these  societies.  The  Elihu  Club,  founded 
in  1903,  forms  a  valuable  addition  to  the  Senior  group.  Another 
striking  addition  to  the  society  life  of  the  undergraduate,  of  Sheff 
as  well  as  Yale  College,  is  the  Elizabethan  Club,  made  possible 
through  the  generosity  of  a  graduate  of  the  Class  of  1896.  The 
club  was  founded  by  men  interested  in  good  literature,  for  the 
encouragement  of  the  taste  for  it  and  the  desire  to  produce  it. 
Billy  Phelps  is  largely  responsible  for  giving  the  club  its  aim 
and  character  and  success. 

Speaking  of  things  convivial  and  stimulating,  I  had  almost  for- 
gotten Mory's.  My  memory  evidently  has  little  respect  for  the 
unities  of  time,  place  and  action.  I  trust  that  no  critical  class- 
mate will  try  to  discover  the  plot  of  this  tailless  tale.  To  have 
overlooked  this  extra-mural  shrine  might  have  seemed  criminal  to 
some  devoted  members  of  the  Class.  This  Mecca  is  no  more — 
0  mores,  0  tempora.  I  know  that  it  has  passed  away,  for  its 
obituary  has  been  written  by  a  son  of  Yale.  There  is  said  to  be  a 
new  Mory's — as  if  such  a  thing  were  possible.  This  is  not  the 
age  of  miracles.  I  have  not  tried  its  cakes  and  ale. 

Morning  chapel  has  withstood  the  tooth  of  time,  and  the  tongue 
of  criticism.  There  is,  however,  now  no  chapel-going  bell  to  toll  in 
the  last  sketchily  clad  stragglers.  Its  silent  tongue  is  enshrined, 
so  rumor  has  it,  in  one  of  the  institutions  which  are  peculiar  to 
Yale's  undergraduate  life.  Dr.  Barbour,  who  for  four  years 
preached  to  us  a  gospel  which  would  have  delighted  the  soul  of 
Calvin  himself,  and  who  for  the  same  number  of  years  tried  each 
morning  to  prepare  us  for  the  stern  duties  of  the  day,  ended  his 
cure  of  souls  for  Yale  at  our  graduation.  He  became  principal  of 
the  Congregational  College'  of  British  North  America,  Montreal, 
Canada,  and  died  in  1899. 


38  TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  '87 

Speaking  of  Dr.  Barbour  reminds  me  of  Dr.  Stoeckel,  organist 
and  choir  leader,  who  for  some  thirty-five  years  added  to  the  morn- 
ing chapel  service  such  charms  as  music  has.  He  died  in  1907  after 
long  retirement  from  active  service.  This  brings  to  mind  the  Music 
School,  which  now  occupies  President  Dwight's  former  home,  and 
is  one  of  the  most  active  departments  of  the  University.  The 
work  of  Professor  Parker  and  his  associates  has  made  the  School 
widely  known  and  is  making  New  Haven  a  musical  center  of  no 
mean  proportion. 

Morning  chapel  is  now  conducted  by  members  of  the  faculty,  and 
the  pulpit  is  filled  on  Sunday  by  preachers  selected  impartially  from 
our  numerous  sects,  for  their  ability  to  touch  and  warm  the  under- 
graduate heart  and  conscience.  Sunday  service  is  frequently  held 
in  Woolsey  Hall,  one  of  the  stately  architectural  additions  which 
commemorate  the  completion  of  Yale's  second  century  of  ser- 
vice. The  transfer  of  the  services  to  this  magnificent  hall  every 
fourth  or  fifth  Sunday  enables  the  Sheff  men,  as  well  as  those  of 
other  departments,  to  avail  themselves  of  the  benefits  of  clergy, 

This  mention  of  Woolsey  Hall  calls  to  mind  what  is  perhaps  the 
greatest  change  in  the  ceremonial  of  college  life.  The  change 
referred  to  appears  in  the  conferring  of  degrees  at  Commence- 
ment. In  our  day  of  simple  things,  those  who  had  held  the  lead 
for  four  years  were  rewarded  by  being  forced  to  appear  in  public 
on  the  stage  at  graduation.  Words  of  wisdom  based  upon  four 
years  of  study  were  showered  upon  classmates  of  lower  estate,  and 
the  rest  of  mankind. 

This  has  now  been  changed  beyond  all  recognition  of  its  former 
semblance.  The  scene  has  been  shifted  from  Center  Church,  and 
the  candidates  from  Yale  College  gather  with  those  of  all  other 
departments  of  the  University  in  Woolsey  Hall.  The  wings  of 
graduating  and  graduated  oratory  have  been  clipped,  and  the  exer- 
cises have  become  a  pageant  of  splendor  and  parade,  as  you  who 
have  witnessed  it  can  testify.  Geronimo  and  his  band  in  all  their 
glory  and  plumage  could  not  hold  a  feather  to  us  arrayed  in  our 
many  colored  toga  scholastica.  The  chief  feature  of  the  Com- 
mencement exercises  as  at  present  practiced  is  the  conferring  of 
degrees,  honoris  causa,  upon  men  of  distinction.  It  is  a  dignified 
and  impressive  ceremony.  But  most  of  you  have  seen  this  spectacle 
and  I  am  wasting  my  words. 


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39 


COMMENCEMENT  PROCESSION 


A  great  addition  to  the  comfort  and  convenience  of  undergrad- 
uate life.,  since  it  concerns  their  very  meat  and  drink,  has  come  about 
through  the  establishment  of  Commons.  The  great  Yale  Dining 
Hall,  one  of  the  sights  of  the  University,  is  familiar  to  most  of 
you  from  attendance  at  alumni  dinners.  This  has  all  the  appoint- 
ments of  a  well-managed  hotel  and  a  seating  capacity  of  1200. 
The  food  is  abundant,  its  quality  excellent,  the  service  good  and 
the  price  reasonable,  inasmuch  as  no  attempt  is  made  to  run  the 
establishment  at  a  profit.  At  rush  seasons,  as  on  the  days  of  the 


40  TWENTY-FIFE  YEARS  OF  '87 

big  games  or  at  Prom  time,,  ladies  are  admitted  to  the  privileges  of 
the  hall.  It  should  be  added  that  there  are  grill  rooms  in  Dwight 
and  Byers  Memorial  Halls. 

Another  addition  to  the  means  for  increasing  the  bodily  com- 
fort of  the  student  body  is  the  Infirmary,  built  in  1892.  This 
accession  to  Yale's  equipment  can  be  appreciated  by  those  who,, 
during  their  college  course,  were  visited  by  any  human  ill  suffi- 
cient to  keep  them  to  their  rooms.  The  college  room  did  not  make 
a  good  sick-bay;  much  sympathy  could  not  make  up  for  good 
nursing,  and  the  cold  and  broken  meats,  transported  from  some 
distant  eating  joint  by  the  kindness  of  roommate  or  sweep,  were 
rarely  palatable.  All  this  is  now  remedied,  and  a  student  who  falls 
ill  is  given  all  the  care  and  comfort  which  would  be  given  to  any 
other  individual  so  circumstanced.  The  Infirmary  has  the  appoint- 
ments of  a  well-equipped  hospital  or  sanitarium,  and  its  location  on 
Prospect  Hill,  opposite  Sachem's  Wood,  is  beautiful  and  salubrious. 
At  times  it  has  been  so  popular  a  health  resort  that  sick  excuses 
have  had  to  be  viseed  with  some  care.  It  must  be  a  great  shock 
to  the  old  Law  of  the  Survival  of  the  Fittest,  to  see  all  those  hard- 
ening processes,  both  mental  and  physical,  of  our  day,  eliminated 
from  the  educational  system. 

Greater  care  is  given  to  the  well,  as  well  as  to  the  sick.  The 
gymnasium  of  our  antediluvian  age  was  the  last  resort  of  feeble 
bodies.  Its  apparatus,  limited  in  amount  and  primitive  in  char- 
acter, was  in  wonderful  contrast  to  the  embarrassment  of  riches 
housed  in  the  new  Gymnasium.  This  building,  which  owes  its 
being  to  Dicky  Richards'  persistent  appeals  to  the  generous 
impulses  of  graduates,  is  the  athletic  center  and  clearing-house. 
Here  is  housed  every  apparatus  and  device  known  to  science  for 
developing  and  strengthening  the  whole  body  or  any  fraction 
thereof.  All  is  under  the  supervision  of  a  trained  physician. 
Better  notions  of  the  relation  of  exercise,  hygiene  and  food  to 
health  have  arisen,  and  the  harmfulness  of  the  neglect  or  abuse 
of  nature's  laws  is  better  understood.  The  thousand  odd  lockers 
attest  the  numbers  who  avail  themselves  of  the  gymnastic  privileges. 
The  Gymnasium  is  a  great  factor  in  Yale  life,  and  the  recent  addi- 
tions, the  Carnegie  Swimming  Pool,  and  to  a  lesser  extent,  the 
indoor  baseball  cage,  have  still  further  increased  its  usefulness. 
While  speaking  of  things  athletic,  the  tennis  courts  on  the  Pierson- 


REMINISCENCES  AND  CHANGES 


HAMILTON   PARK  GATE 


Sage  Square  (alias  Sachem's  Wood),  the  baseball  cage,  the  Adee 
Boathouse,  and  the  new  athletic  Field,  with  its  Bowl,  are  quite 
beyond  the  dreams  of  the  avarice  of  our  day.  To  be  appreciated, 
they  must  be  seen. 

Sport,  which  in  our  day  was  tolerated  as  an  inevitable  interfer- 
ence with  more  serious  work,  has  come  to  be  recognized  as  an 
important  feature  of  college  experience.  Many  of  the  faculty  are 
good  fans.  It  is  recognized  that  sport  not  only  develops  the  body, 
but  that  it  makes  for  self-control  and  morality.  The  athletic 
interests  have  been  given  an  official  status  by  the  election  of  the 
official  adviser — at  present  the  chairman  of  the  University  Ath- 
letic Association — to  membership  in  the  faculty  and  the  Univer- 
sity Council.  Yale  has  been  consistent  and  wise,  however,  in 
leaving  all  athletic  control  possible  in  the  hands  of  the  undergrad- 
uates and  the  advisers  chosen  by  them.  As  a  quid  pro  quo  the 
faculty  has  insisted  that  all  participants  and  representatives  in 


42  TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  '87 

athletic  contests  should  have  their  scholastic  affairs  in  good  order, 
and  athlete  is  accordingly  synonymous  with  good  student. 

Though  the  four  major  sports  still  hold  first  place,  several  new 
forms  of  athletic  activity  and  organization  unknown  to  us  have 
arisen,  notably  basket  ball,  soccer,  water  polo,  hockey  and  golf. 
There  is  accordingly  a  much  larger  number  of  men  engaged  in 
sports.  This  has  necessitated  the  adoption  of  more  rigid  regula- 
tions concerning  the  participation,  more  especially  in  intercollegiate 
contests. 

Another  marked  difference  in  matters  athletic  would  be  noted  by 
a  returning  Rip  Van  Winkle  of  '87.  It  would  seem  to  him  a  long 
time  between  victories.  The  triumphal  snake-dance  and  bonfire 
have  long  been  strangers  to  the  Campus.  In  the  days  of  Noah, 
contest  and  victory  were  almost  synonymous — 

This   day,   the   noise   of  battle, — 
The  next,  the  victor's  song. 

There  is,  however,  throughout  the  College,  a  good,  healthy,  sports- 
manlike spirit.  Unfair  recruiting  and  unsportsmanlike  tactics  are 
discountenanced.  Though  Yale  has  accumulated  fewer  cups  and 
banners  of  late  than  she  used  to  in  the  good  old  days,  there  are  no 
doubt  some  contributing  causes  which  at  first  escape  notice.  Yale 
has  taught  the  lessons  of  football,  baseball  and  rowing  to  most  of 
the  colleges  of  the  East,  and  some  of  her  pupils  seem  to  have  learned 
their  lessons  almost  too  well.  The  very  increase  in  the  number  of 
students  has  made  the  athletic  problem  more  difficult.  This  has 
increased  the  difficulty  of  selection  and  of  training  more  than  at 
first  appears.  It  seems  also  to  some  that  the  push  of  old  days  has 
been  sacrificed  too  much  to  the  study  of  tactics  and  of  strategy. 
Yale  seems,  however,  to  be  working  through  these  problems,  and  it 
is  believed  that  the  consolidation  of  the  University  Spirit,  and  a 
more  forceful  leadership  will  at  no  very  distant  day  end  our 
era  of  apology.  \ 

Speaking  of  things  athletic,  it  so  chances  as  I  write  this  that 
the  Junior  Promenade  is  on.  This  ought  to  show  much  change, 
and  it  does.  The  stately  function  which  we  knew  has  developed 

$  This  article  was  prepared  some  months  before  the  author  was  made 
chairman  of  the  Yale  University  Athletic  Association. — [En.] 


REMINISCENCES  AND  CHANGES 


certain  highpowered  qualities.  Dawn  teas  and  receptions  and 
other  side-shows  have  sprung  up  around  the  big  tent;  but  in  spite 
of  all  these  things,  the  chief  feature  of  the  Prom,  the  Prom  Girl, 
seems  to  have  remained  unchanged.  Neither  the  infinite  eccentrici- 
ties of  the  dance,  nor  the  extreme  diaphaneity  of  the  dress  can 
hide  the  fact  that  these  are  the  same  girls  that  wore  our  little 
knots  of  blue  and  did  not  reject  other  little  tokens  of  our  respect 
and  esteem,  as  their  mothers  might  testify  if  they  would. 

Perhaps  the  most  striking  addition  to  the  extra-curriculum  activi- 
ties is  the  establishment  of  the  Dramatic  Association.  Some  of 
you  have  seen  at  our  recent  reunions  what  these  young  men  can 
do  in  the  way  of  presenting  even  the  more  difficult  plays  of  Shakes- 
peare. Here  again,  Billy  Phelps  is  the  man  behind  the  scenes. 

An  innovation  which  would  strike  an  '87  visitor  as  startling  is 
the  Campus  Patrol.  In  our  day  the  Campus  was  our  castle,  and  a 
copper  entered  it  at  his  peril,  but  Jim  Donnelly  and  his  walking 
mate,  Weiser,  have  long  been  some  of  the  most  necessary  collegiate 
functionaries,  as  necessary  as  was  the  Hotchkiss  of  our  day.  A 
proposal  to  disband  and  discharge  this  police  force  would  create 
a  student  riot. 

An  interesting  addition  to  the  means  of  student  control,  which 
would  seem  amazing  to  our  antiquated  notions,  is  the  Student  Coun- 
cil. This  is  a  body  of  representatives,  elected  by  the  students, 
more  especially  to  act  as  an  intermediary  between  students  and 
faculty.  The  councils  of  both  the  undergraduate  bodies  have  been 
most  helpful  in  establishing  wholesome  and  manly  relations  between 
the  body  which  they  represent  and  the  faculty.  Much  has  been 
accomplished  toward  abolishing  the  dual  code  of  honor  which 
formerly  obtained  in  the  matter  of  cribbing.  There  are  many 
matters  for  which  they  have  assumed  the  full  responsibility.  It 
is  believed  that  this  germ  of  self-government  may  develop  still 
further. 

Likewise,  the  '87  man  seeing  the  Campus  lighted  by  electricity 
would  probably  recall  the  blight  which  befell  the  first  electric  pole 
which  dared  shed  its  ghastly  light  upon  our  Fence.  Many  poles 
went  the  way  of  the  historic  cherry  tree  before  we  were  left  in 
our  chosen  darkness.  That  ancient  seat  of  learning,  the  Fence, 
as  you  all  know,  has  given  way  to  that  monster  of  hideous  mien, 
Osborn  Hall.  There  is,  inside  the  Campus,  a  fence  which  fences 


44  TWENTY-FIFE  YEARS  OF  '87 

nothing,,  and  a  fence  oration  embodying  the  same  time-honored 
and  shopworn  jokes,  but  neither  students,  nor  custom  and  tradi- 
tion, find  any  real  abiding  perch  upon  it.  It  is  no  longer  the  forum 
or  the  corner  grocery  of  the  Campus. 

Dear  old  Whitchkiss,  pleasant  or  cross  to  friend  or  foe  alike, 
entirely  according  to  the  stand  of  the  barometer  or  the  foot  he  had 
first  put  out  of  bed,  we  should  sadly  miss.  When  he  found  that  a 
court  purveyor  of  barrels  and  other  combustibles  for  victorious 
bonfires  seemed  no  longer  a  necessary  functionary  at  Yale,  he  felt 
that  this  world  no  longer  had  need  of  him.  He  died  in  1911,  proud 
of  the  fact  that  he  had  never  seen  the  Yale  Boathouse  nor  visited 
the  Yale  Field. 


As  to  the  more  essential  educational  features  of  undergraduate 
life,  it  must  be  confessed  that  the  life  of  the  undergraduate  today 
has  become  fuller  and  more  complicated  than  was  the  case  in  our 
day.  New  forms  of  extra-curriculum  activities  develop  every  day. 
Though  Yale  has  been  consistently  conservative  in  her  attitude 
toward  the  adoption  of  what  is  new,  many  kinds  of  instruction 
unknown  to  us  are  now  offered  freely  to  the  student. 

The  tendency  in  education  has  been  to  make  the  pupil  the  archi- 
tect of  his  own  development,  and  this  tendency  has  been  allowed 
to  some  extent  here  at  Yale.  Much  greater  freedom  is  now  allowed 
to  the  student  in  the  election  of  studies.  This  election  may  even 
begin  in  the  preparatory  school.  Though  Latin  still  holds  its 
place  as  a  rigid  entrance  requirement,  Greek  has  given  way  and 
sunk  to  an  elective  of  equal  rank  with  modern  languages,  advanced 
mathematics  and  science.  From  the  beginning  of  the  college  course 
the  range  of  choice  increases,  the  student  being  saved  from  scat- 
tering his  energies  too  widely  by  a  system  of  prerequisites  which 
confines  the  choice  to  rather  rigid  groups. 

Several  elements  quite  outside  the  curriculum  have  tended  to 
change  the  undergraduate  life.  The  size  of  the  class  has  made  it 
hard  to  develop  the  solidarity  of  earlier  and  smaller  classes. 
Moreover,  the  introduction  of  elective  courses  and  subjects  has 
largely  eliminated  the  invaluable  incentive  of  competition,  though 
giving  a  wider  field  for  the  display  of  marked  ability.  The  com- 
parison of  grades  gained  by  one  in  the  English  drama  with  those 


REMINISCENCES  AND  CHANGES  45 

won  by  another  in  chemistry  gives  little  basis   for  estimating  the 
relative  industry  or  intellectual  capacity  of  the  two  students. 

Moreover,  the  change  in  home  life  has  had  its  influence  upon 
the  student.  The  professor  is  now  no  longer  the  repository  of  all 
knowledge.  He  is  a  specialist  whose  knowledge  in  certain  fields 
is  quite  likely  to  be  more  limited  than  that  of  his  pupil.  The  stu- 
dent may  know  more  of  the  mechanics  of  the  automobile  and 
aeroplane  than  his  teacher,  may  be  more  conversant  with  business 
efficiency  and  with  financial  questions,  and  may  have  had  more 
advantages  of  foreign  travel.  Or  he  may,  from  Sunday  supple- 
ments and  other  purveyors  of  cheap  and  incorrect  information, 
which  frequently  pass  for  liberal  education,  have  filled  his  sys- 
tem with  an  antitoxin  which  resists  most  of  the  efforts  of  the 
college  instructor.  These  influences  have  shifted  somewhat  the 
point  of  view  of  the  student,  and  his  attitude  toward  his  college 
education.  They  have  also  increased  the  problems  of  the  instructor 
and  of  the  faculty  as  a  whole.  Every  faculty  of  the  present  day  is 
struggling  to  find  some  guiding  hand  or  guiding  principle  in  this 
age  of  educational  anarchism.  Just  now  the  cry  is  that  education 
must  be  made  practical,  whatever  that  means,  and  the  practical  man 
has  been  given  the  helm  in  most  of  the  secondary  schools,  not 
always,  it  is  feared,  to  the  benefit  of  the  victims  who  have  submitted 
themselves  to  the  process  which  is  called  education. 


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THE  DEATH  on  January 
20,  1915,  of  Professor 
Andrew  Wheeler  Phillips,  than 
whom  no  member  of  the  faculty 
came  closer  in  touch  with  '87  or 
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delible mark,  inspired  the  Secre- 
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furnish  for  this  book  not  only  the 
sketch  of  Professor  Phillips  which 
follows,  but  also  the  portrait, 
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ANDREW  WHEELER  PHILLIPS,  PH.D. 

BY 

WILLIAM  LYON  PHELPS 

That  fine  old  Elizabethan,  Thomas  Heywood,  in  his  interesting 
work,  "The  Hierarchic  of  the  Blessed  Angels/'  remarked: 

I  for  my  part 

(Think  others  what  they  please)  accept  that  heart 
Which  courts  my  loue  in  most  familiar  phrase; 
And  that  it  takes  not  from  my  paines  or  praise, 
If  any  one  to  me  so  bluntly  com, 
I  hold  he  loues  me  best  who  calls  me  Tom. 

The  president,  the  corporation,  the  faculty,  the  alumni,  the  under- 
graduates generally  spoke  of  the  dean  of  the  Graduate  School  as 
Andy:  it  was  a  title  of  distinction,  bred  of  affection,  and  seasoned 
with  years.  No  one  has  ever  known  a  man  who  resembled  Andy 
Phillips ;  and  we  shall  not  see  his  like  again. 

Although  Jewett  City  held  the  first  place  in  his  heart,  he  was 
born  at  Griswold,  Conn.,  very  near  the  Ides  of  March,  1844,  on 
the  fourteenth  of  the  month,  to  be  specific.  He  learned  his  first 
lessons  at  a  red  brick  schoolhouse,  where  he  outshone  not  only  his 
comrades,  but  the  teacher,  in  the  science  of  mathematics.  He 
received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  at  Yale  in  1873,  an  M.A.  at  Trinity 
in  1875,  and  a  Ph.D.  for  brilliant  graduate  work  at  Yale  in  1877. 
He  was  successively  and  successfully  tutor,  assistant  professor 
and  professor  of  mathematics  at  Yale,  beginning  his  instruction  in 
the  year  of  his  doctorate:  in  1895  he  was  appointed  dean  of  the 
Graduate  School.  His  publications  were  numerous,  useful  and 
important :  the  one  best  remembered  by  the  Yale  alumni  is  probably 
"Graphic  Algebra,"  which  he  wrote  in  collaboration  with  Professor 
Beebe  in  1882. 

I  have  never  met  a  person  of  any  age  or  sex  who  was  a  more 
consistent  dunce  in  mathematics  than  I.  My  stupidity  in  this  great 
field  of  human  learning  is  something  to  be  relied  on,  like  the  Rock 
of  Gibraltar.  It  has  successfully  withstood  the  valiant  attacks 


48  TWENTY-FIFE  YEARS  OF  '81 

made  on  it  by  all  kinds  of  school  and  college  teachers,  ranging  from 
those  who  have  made  long  and  patient  siege,  to  those  who  have 
assaulted  it  with  the  bludgeon  of  fear,  and  the  swift  arrows  of 
sarcasm.  I  went  to  school  at  the  age  of  three,  and  studied  mathe- 
matics continuously  until  the  end  of  my  Junior  year  in  college; 
and  with  the  exception  of  a  rudimentary  knowledge  of  addition, 
subtraction,  multiplication,  and  short  division,  I  know  no  more  now 
than  when  I  began.  To  this  day  I  do  not  know  whether  the  G.  C.  D. 
is  the  Greatest  Common  Divisor  or  the  Grand  Central  Depot. 
And  if  by  an  unlucky  chance  it  should  mean  the  former,  I  do  not 
know  what  the  former  means. 

I  well  remember  a  written  examination  in  mathematics  I  took 
at  school,  when  I  was  twelve  years  old.  The  perfect  mark  was  ten. 
My  mark  on  that  examination  was  four-tenths  of  one,  a  liberal 
estimate  of  my  actual  knowledge  by  a  female  teacher.  I  have 
forgotten  everything  on  the  paper  except  the  mark,  which  my 
classmates  took  pains  to  inform  me  was  very  low.  When  I  was 
in  college,  I  hated  Chauvenet's  Geometry  with  such  murderous 
intensity  that  I  looked  him  up  in  an  encyclopaedia  to  see  if  he  were 
still  living  and  when  I  found  that  he  was  no  more,  I  wrote  on  the 
title-page  of  his  book,  "Thank  God — he's  dead!"  I  wished  his 
works  had  followed  him. 

I  approach  the  subject  of  my  sketch,  therefore,  from  the 
unprejudiced  standpoint  of  an  invincible  ignorance  of  his  scientific 
speciality.  But  although  mathematics  is  not  a  human  subject, 
Professor  Phillips  was  a  human  object. 

Mathematics  is  a  science:  teaching  is  an  art:  Professor  Phillips 
was  an  artist.  He  was  always  a  great  teacher,  and  I  never  saw 
anyone  teach  with  more  zest,  or  get  more  fun  out  of  his  work  than 
he.  He  loved  his  subject,  he  loved  his  pupils,  and  he  loved  his  job: 
three  conditions  requisite  to  success.  Never  shall  I  forget  the 
delight  with  which  he  used  to  exhibit  mathematical  models  to  the 
class ;  to  him  they  were  as  beautiful  as  an  iridescent  dream,  to  me 
as  inexplicable.  Graphic  Algebra — which  seemed  to  me  a  combi- 
nation of  Algebra  and  Geometry  in  their  most  malignant  form — 
became  for  the  moment  in  his  hands  a  thing  of  radiant  beauty. 
He  approached  the  subject,  now  with  reverence,  now  with  uncon- 
cealable  affection.  Some  of  the  curves  he  put  on  the  board  had 
the  restrained  beauty  of  classicism:  others  took  on  the  hues  of 


ANDREW  WHEELER  PHILLIPS,  PH.D.  49 

the  wildest  romanticism.  Graphic  Algebra  became  a  poem,  nay, 
a  religion.  I  remember  as  we  entered  the  classroom  one  glorious 
spring  day,  Professor  Phillips  began  the  exercise  by  saying,  "What 
curve  can  we  find  to  fit  the  splendor  of  this  beautiful  May 
morning?"  He  found  one! 

Humor  was  a  salient  feature  of  his  personality :  never  a  recitation 
without  some  humorous  incident.  He  enjoyed  excellent  recitations, 
and  he  enjoyed  execrable  ones.  He  had  a  certain  alchemy  which 
enabled  him  to  extract  humor  out  of  the  most  unpromising  situa- 
tions. But  although  full  of  the  sense  of  fun,  there  was  no  better 
disciplinarian  on  the  faculty  than  he.  The  most  rigid  discipline 
prevailed  in  his  classroom,  and  no  student  ever  tried  to  be  fresh 
or  to  take  the  subject  other  than  seriously.  Once  after  a  beautiful 
and  triumphant  demonstration  of  some  particularly  complicated 
proposition  that  came  out  just  exactly  right,  a  few  members  of 
the  class  started  to  applaud:  the  sudden  and  severe  reprimand  they 
got  from  the  chair  made  any  future  attempt  of  the  kind  not  only 
impossible,  but  unthinkable.  Professor  Phillips  proved  that  just 
as  absolute  discipline  can  be  maintained  by  humorous  kindness  as 
by  a  grim-visaged  front,  or  by  the  imposition  of  penalties.  And 
as  one  who  recited  to  him  for  three  consecutive  years,  I  can  bear 
witness  to  the  fact  that  his  pupils  had  to  work.  His  invariable 
formula,  "Work  out,  plot,  and  bring  into  the  class"  meant  hours 
of  toil.  It  was  impossible  to  substitute  guessing  for  labor.  I 
learned  a  great  deal  about  human  nature  from  this  kindly  and 
admirable  teacher:  what  I  got  out  of  his  courses  was  the  tonic 
resulting  from  the  absolute  necessity  of  working  hard  and  con- 
tinuously for  three  years  at  a  job  I  detested  every  moment. 

Professor  Phillips  seemed  to  know  each  student  intimately:  he 
knew  his  characteristics,  and  the  personal  treatment  of  each  man 
varied  with  the  man's  needs.  In  his  innumerable  private  conversa- 
tions with  individuals,  he  adapted  his  method  with  consummate 
wisdom.  He  always  had  a  wholesome  hatred  of  hypocrisy,  bunkum, 
pretence,  big  talk,  bluff,  whether  exhibited  by  men  prominent  in 
public  life  or  by  undergraduates;  and  he  cured  a  number  of  the 
latter  of  this  evil  without  losing  their  friendship.  One  student's 
examination  was  so  fine  he  simply  had  to  mark  it  four;  but  in  this 
instance  he  thought  it  would  not  be  the  best  thing  for  that  par- 
ticular student  to  tell  him  his  mark.  Soon  he  received  a  note 


60  TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  '87 

requesting  it,  and  Professor  Phillips  replied,  with  an  air  of 
condolence,  "I  want  to  tell  you  that  I  marked  you  just  as  high  as 
I  possibly  could." 

Professor  Phillips  rendered  great  services  to  the  cause  of  second- 
ary education  by  serving  on  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Cheshire, 
Hopkins  Grammar  and  Hotchkiss  schools,  particularly  as  president 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Hotchkiss.  Only  the  men  intimately 
associated  with  the  management  of  these  schools  know  how 
untiring,  how  devoted,  how  unselfish,  and  how  valuable  his  services 
were.  He  simply  gave  himself  unsparingly,  and  it  is  pleasant  to 
remember  that  his  work  with  the  Hotchkiss  School  has  been  made 
a  matter  of  permanent  record  by  a  large  oil  painting  at  the 
institution,  which,  by  the  way,  is  a  remarkably  lifelike  portrait. 

Unselfish  and  reserveless  devotion  characterized  all  his  work 
for  Yale,  as  teacher,  as  head  of  the  mathematical  department,  as 
financial  agent  for  the  Bicentennial  Fund,  and  as  dean  of  the 
Graduate  School.  We  may  have  differed  with  him  occasionally 
as  to  his  judgments  on  individual  members  of  his  department;  but 
we  all  agree  that  everything  he  did,  he  did  with  an  eye  single  to 
that  department's  service.  At  one  time  in  his  career,  a  large 
number  of  students  wished  to  take  a  course  in  bookkeeping  under 
his  instruction,  and  apart  from  the  curriculum;  he  taught  them 
faithfully  for  a  number  of  weeks,  and  when  they  offered  to  pay 
for  the  instruction,  he  refused  to  take  a  cent  for  himself,  but  had 
them  pay  for  a  set  of  models  for  the  mathematical  department. 
It  is  probably  not  generally  known  that  out  of  his  earnings  as 
writer  and  teacher  he  made  many  gifts  of  money  to  the  University, 
money  that  he  could  ill  spare.  As  financial  agent  for  the  Bicen- 
tennial Fund,  he  traveled  all  over  the  United  States  on  the  most 
disagreeable  of  errands,  and  at  a  time  when  his  health  was 
exceedingly  poor.  This  work  lasted  many  months,  and  made  a 
tremendous  strain  on  his  physical  endurance. 

A  man  is  known  by  his  friendships.  His  most  intimate  friend 
on  the  faculty  was  Dean  Wright,  and  he  stood  closer  to  President 
Dwight  than  any  other  professor  in  the  institution.  To  receive  the 
absolute  confidence  of  men  like  President  Dwight  arid  Dean 
Wright  is  in  itself  a  high  tribute.  The  president  and  these  two 
deans  made  a  great  isosceles  triangle;  and  the  success  of  President 


ANDREW  WHEELER  PHILLIPS,  PH.D.  51 

Dwight's  administration  certainly  owed  something  to  this  basic 
support. 

As  dean  of  the  Graduate  School,  Professor  Phillips  came  into 
his  own.  His  genius  for  organization  was  immediately  apparent. 
The  school  grew  in  numbers  with  extraordinary  rapidity,  and  is 
today  one  of  the  greatest  graduate  schools  in  the  United  States. 
This  result  has  been  achieved  largely  by  the  unremitting  patience, 
industry  and  wisdom  of  its  dean.  He  seldom  took  a  vacation,  and 
worked  steadily  all  through  the  summer  months,  except  when  the 
condition  of  his  health,  never  robust,  absolutely  required  him  to 
rest.  Then  he  paid  for  extra  help  out  of  his  own  pocket. 

No  one  except  those  close  to  him  have  any  idea  of  the  man's 
capacity  for  personal  sacrifice  in  the  later  years  as  dean.  As  a 
class,  graduate  students  are  desperately  poor  in  cash;  most  of 
them  come  hither  with  no  means  of  support,  and  many  of  them  in 
indifferent  health.  To  all  of  these  God's  poor  the  dean  was  a 
veritable  father  confessor;  he  spent  hundreds  of  hours  listening 
to  their  complicated  tales  of  woe,  encouraging  them  to  go  ahead, 
and  keeping  their  faith  from  utterly  failing.  The  number  of 
intimate  confidences  he  received  would  make  a  most  human  docu- 
ment, if  it  could  be  recorded.  It  is  pleasant  to  remember  that 
these  students  have  not  been  ungrateful.  Many  a  successful  college 
professor  today  in  the  far  West  and  in  the  South,  men  who  are 
immensely  loyal  to  Yale,  and  send  many  students  hither,  take 
delight  in  testifying  to  the  fact  that  they  owe  their  whole  career 
to  the  sympathetic  encouragement  of  Dean  Phillips,  given  at  a 
time  when  they  stood  in  a  crisis.  In  my  various  travels  about  the 
country  to  alumni  associations,  our  men  who  hold  graduate  degrees 
from  Yale  always  sent  affectionate  messages  home  to  the  old  dean. 
I  wish  his  correspondence  could  be  published. 

As  a  member  of  the  undergraduate  faculty,  Professor  Phillips 
was  always  on  the  side  of  mercy.  He  may  have  often  shown  more 
mercy  than  justice,  but  surely  that  is  not  an  unamiable  trait.  He 
has  possibly  saved  some  men  not  worth  saving;  on  the  other  hand, 
a  surprisingly  large  number  of  Yale's  alumni  who  are  now  useful 
and  influential  citizens,  and  whose  support  Yale  constantly  depends 
on,  owe  their  B.A.  degree  directly  to  his  personal  efforts,  and  they 
are  keenly  aware  of  the  fact. 

For  Professor  Phillips  never  gave  up  faith  in  humanity.      His 


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cheerful  optimism  was  something  indomitable,  something  that 
intense  personal  sorrow  and  bereavement,  sad  loneliness,  chroni- 
cally bad  health,  acute  attacks  of  extreme  physical  anguish,  and 
lack  of  appreciation,  could  never  even  for  a  moment  beat.  I  have 
seen  him  in  action  in  the  classroom;  I  have  seen  him  in  his  dean's 
sanctum;  in  faculty  meetings;  in  the  old  homestead  in  his  beloved 
Jewett  City;  and  more  than  a  score  of  times  I  have  seen  him  sick 
in  bed,  and  utterly  unable  to  rise;  but  I  never  saw  him  petulant, 
disconsolate,  or  afraid:  he  was  always  cheerful,  always  had  time 
to  read  one  of  his  humorous  poems,  or  to  tell  a  good  story,  or  to 
explain  some  new  mathematical  device  or  demonstration.  The 
influence  of  such  a  man  is  permanent. 


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History  will  record  that  among  the  graduates  of  '87  who  came 
to  New  Haven  for  the  reunion,  June  15  to  21,  1912,  there  were 
representatives  from  twelve  of  the  sixteen  states  of  the  Union  in 
which  our  men  live;  that  six  states  were  represented  by  every  '87 
man  residing  in  them,  and  that  only  one  state  having  more  than 
one  man  was  unrepresented. 

In  the  aggregate,  there  were  seventy-three  men  who  appeared 
at  Class  headquarters,  255  Crown  Street,  of  whom  only  two  were 
non-graduate  members  of  the  Class.  It  was  a  source  of  regret 
that  so  few  of  the  non-graduate  members  came,  it  having  been 
especially  urged  upon  them  that  it  was  quite  as  much  their  reunion 
as  a  reunion  of  those  whose  diplomas  bear  the  date  1887. 

California  should,  perhaps,  by  reason  of  its  distance  from  the 
seat  of  war,  bear  the  palm  for  attendance,  for  Kent,  Sam  Knight, 
Romaine,  Thacher  and  Sanford  were  all  early  on  hand;  but 
Connecticut,  with  seventeen  men  present  and  only  two  absent, 
should  be  in  the  honorable  mention  list. 

The  thoughtlessness  of  the  Republican  National  Committee  in 
fixing  the  date  of  the  National  Convention  upon  the  same  day  as 


56 


THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 


the  Commencement  ball  game,  deprived  us  of  Copley  and  took  Kent 
off  to  Chicago  on  Monday.  Such  interference  with  our  plans  was 
the  more  inexcusable,  since  our  reunion  date  was  fixed  long  before 
that  of  the  Convention.  If  evidence  of  its  unwisdom  were  needed, 
sufficient  proof  was  furnished  on  November  5. 

The  influx  of  men  of  '87  to  New  Haven  commenced  before  the 
headquarters  were  opened,  and  when  the  committee  arrived  to 
officially  throw  open  the  doors  of  255  Crown  Street,  on  Saturday 
morning,  they  found  a  small  knot  of  '87  men  waiting  in  the 
attitude  suggestive  of  the  early  risers  awaiting  the  opening  of  the 
gates  for  the  first  game  of  a  world's  series;  and  after  the  final 
meal  had  been  served,  the  bunting  on  headquarters  torn  down  and 
the  lights  put  out,  a  few  were  still  about,  not  quite  certain  whether 
"the  last  gun  had  been  fired"  or  not  and  fully  determined  to  hear 
it  go  off  if  it  hadn't. 

Eighty-seven  had  never  before  known  a   real   reunion  with   all 


Standing: — Rogers,  Leeds,  Dann 
Seated: — Clarke,  Corwin,  Douglass,  Playford,  G.  E.  Hill,  Brownson 


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57 


GATES,  DOUGLASS,  KETCHAM,  CORWIN 


"the  fixins."  We  had  met,  and  enjoyed  it,  too,  and  had  gone  away, 
with  renewed  enthusiasm;  but  this  time  it  was  on  an  entirely 
different  plan. 

The  plans  made  by  the  committee  gave  us  possession  of  the  old 
Thacher  house,  255  Crown  Street,  within  which  was  a  large  dining- 
room  where  all  meals  were  served  and  all  comers  ate  together ;  a 
lounging-  and  writing-room,  the  walls  of  which  had  been  decorated 
with  resurrected  photographs  of  '87  in  college  days  and  teams  and 
crews  of  twenty-five  years  ago;  while  just  outside,  a  huge  tent, 
covering  the  entire  back  yard,  and  supplied  with  chairs,  tables  and 
hammocks,  afforded  the  favorite  lounging  place  throughout  the 
week. 

The  two  houses  adjoining  and  one  directly  opposite  were  ours 
for  the  time  being  for  sleeping  quarters,  and  just  around  the  corner 
at  the  "Taft"  were  reserved  sufficient  rooms  for  the  families  of 
men  desiring  them. 

While,  of  course,  many  events  took  us  daily  away  from  head- 
quarters, the  great  joy  of  it  all  and  that  which  will  linger  longest 


58  THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 

in  the  memory  of  each  man  is  not  ball  game  nor  Class  dinner,  nor 
function  of  any  sort,  but  the  quiet  gatherings  under  the  tent  or  the 
more  noisy  assemblages  around  the  tables  of  the  headquarters 
dining-room.  We  were  again  an  '87  Eating  Club,  with  all  the 
close  companionship  which  that  implies  to  those  men  who  ate  in 
clubs  before  the  days  of  the  modern  Commons. 

From  Saturday  morning  until  Tuesday,  the  arrivals  continued, 
and  high-water  mark  in  attendance  was  reached  at  the  Class  dinner 
of  Tuesday  evening,  when  seventy-two  men  sat  around  the  tables 
at  the  Lawn  Club. 

Those  whose  names  are  entitled  to  appear  upon  the  roll  of  honor, 
as  being  present  at  some  time  during  the  reunion,  are  the  following: 

Charles  Adams,  New  York;  James  Archbald,  Pottsville,  Pa.;  W.  M. 
Babcock,  Minneapolis;  T.  L.  Bayne,  Manchester,  N.  C.;  G.  H.  Beard, 
Bridgeport,  Conn.;  L.  S.  Bigelow,  North  Andover,  Mass.;  A.  W.  Brady, 
Anderson,  111.;  C.  L.  Brownson,  New  York;  E.  L.  Burke,  Genoa,  Nebr.; 
W.  S.  Burns,  Bath,  N.  Y.;  V.  B.  Caldwell,  Omaha;  W.  B.  Chambers,  New 
York;  F.  S.  Chase,  Waterbury,  Conn.;  F.  C.  Clarke,  New  York;  Alfred 
Coit,  New  London,  Conn.;  R.  N.  Corwin,  New  Haven;  A.  B.  Coxe,  Paoli, 
Pa.;  John  Cullinan,  Jr.,  Bridgeport,  Conn.;  H.  A.  Dann,  Buffalo;  J.  C. 
Diehl,  Erie,  Pa.;  W.  R.  Douglass,  Kansas  City;  H.  B.  Ferris,  New  Haven; 
B.  F.  Gaffney,  New  Britain,  Conn.;  A.  F.  Gates,  Hartford,  Conn.;  E.  W. 
Goodenough,  Waterbury,  Conn.;  Madison  Grant,  New  York;  W.  J.  Hand, 
Scranton,  Pa.;  C.  W.  Hartridge,  New  York;  G.  G.  Haven,  New  York; 
Forbes  Hawkes,  New  York;  F.  T.  Hill,  New  York;  G.  E.  Hill,  Bridgeport, 
Conn.;  C.  M.  Hinkle,  Osterville,  Mass.;  L.  K.  Hyde,  Plainfield,  N.  J.; 
R.  I.  Jenks,  New  York;  C.  B.  Jennings,  Fairfield,  Conn.;  O.  G.  Jennings, 
New  York;  Charles  Keeler,  Memphis,  Tenn.;  William  Kent,  Kentfield, 
Calif.;  H.  B.  Ketcham,  New  York;  J.  S.  King,  Little  Britain,  N.  Y.; 
J.  H.  Kirkham,  New  Britain,  Conn.;  C.  A.  Knight,  Peekskill,  N.  Y.; 
Samuel  Knight,  San  Francisco;  Alfred  Leeds,  Springfield,  Mass.;  John 
Leverett,  New  York;  R.  H.  Lewis,  Rochester,  N.  Y.;  C.  H.  Ludington, 
Philadelphia;  W.  H.  Ludington,  New  York;  Robert  Maxwell,  New  York; 
E.  H.  Norton,  Springfield,  Mass.;  H.  T.  Partree,  Eatontown,  N.  J.;  H.  F. 
Perkins,  Chicago;  G.  D.  Pettee,  Great  Barrington,  Mass.;  W.  L.  Phelps, 
New  Haven;  R.  W.  Playford,  Uniontown,  Pa.;  John  Rogers,  New  York; 
Benjamin  Romaine,  San  Francisco;  G.  I.  Rosenzweig,  Kansas  City;  T.  F. 
Sanford,  Berkeley,  Calif.;  C.  O.  Scoville,  New  Haven;  Lewis  Seymour, 
Binghamton,  N.  Y.;  J.  R.  Sheffield,  New  York;  Paul  Spencer,  Philadelphia; 
Frederick  Sprague,  Chicago;  W.  L.  Thacher,  Nordhoff,  Calif.;  R.  S. 
Thomas,  New  York;  H.  C.  Tracy,  New  York;  E.  P.  Trowb ridge,  New 
Haven;  F.  D.  Tuttle,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.;  F.  S.  Woodward,  Richmond  Hill, 
N.  Y.;  George  Woodward,  Philadelphia;  G.  H.  Young,  New  York. 


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The  first  greetings  of  the  new  arrivals  as  they  appeared  at  head- 
quarters were  full  of  interest  and  enthusiasm,  as  in  many  instances 
there  were  meetings  between  men  who  had  not  met  before  since 
graduation.  The  arrival  of  some  grizzled  and  bearded  classmate, 
who  had  left  college  dark  haired  and  smooth  of  face,  was  met  first 
by  sotto  voce  inquiries  of  "Who  is  that?"  followed  by  the  passing 
along  of  his  name  from  man  to  man  and  ending  with  a  mighty 
shout  of  welcome.  More  than  once  it  happened  that  some  stranger 
wandered  in  upon  an  errand  and  was  affectionately  greeted  as  a 
classmate  by  men  who  detected  a  fancied  resemblance  of  twenty- 
five  years  ago;  as  when  a  '93  man  received  a  rousing  welcome  from 
a  group  of  men  who  were  so  sure  he  was  Brady  that  only  the 
appearance  of  the  real  Brady  convinced  them  of  their  error. 

Of  course,  Billy  Phelps  always  makes  a  record  at  an  '87  reunion 
and  it  is  expected.  But  this  reunion  gave  him  the  chance  of  his 
life  to  make  a  unique  record,  for  he  sacrificed  three  months  of  his 
sabbatical  year  in  Europe  to  attend,  and  traveled  from  Munich  to 
be  with  us  and  preside  over  the  dinner  of  Tuesday  night. 

Saturday,  the  day  of  the  gathering  of  the  clans,  was  entirely 
given  up  to  the  welcoming  of  arriving  men,  to  quiet  converse  under 
the  tent  and  renewal  of  the  suspended  intimacy  of  twenty-five  years 
ago.  But  evening  brought  the  outdoor  play  of  the  Yale  Dramatic 
Association,  in  the  temporary  amphitheater  on  the  old  Campus, 
where  "in  our  day"  stood  Lyceum  and  North  Middle,  where  many 
of  the  men  gathered  to  see  "Robin  of  Sherwood."  Here  many  of 
the  wives  and  some  of  the  children  of  '87  were  first  in  evidence, 
and  the  festal  atmosphere  was  but  little  dampened  by  the  slight 
drizzling  rain  and  the  sudden  collapse  of  a  considerable  amount  of 
detached  shrubbery  which  formed  a  part  of  the  stage  scenery. 

Sunday  morning  found  the  men  gathered  again  under  the  tent, 
whence  a  few  either  from  interest  or  because  they  did  not  realize 
that  for  '87,  attendance  at  Chapel  is  no  longer  compulsory,  sallied 
forth  to  attend  the  Baccalaureate  service.  A  few  went  down  to 
Trinity  Church  to  attend  the  morning  service  conducted  by  the 
rector,  Scoville,  '87. 

On  Sunday  afternoon  came  a  pouring  rain  which  dampened 
everything  but  the  '87  enthusiasm.  The  Class  accepted  with 
unanimity  the  invitation  of  Bob  and  Mrs.  Corwin  to  gather  at  their 
home  on  St.  Ronan  Street,  despite  the  fact  that  the  rain  made  the 


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GATHERING  OF  THE  CLANS  AT  COUNTRY  CLUB 


anticipated  outdoor  feature  of  it  impossible.  A  number  of  automo- 
biles conveyed  us  to  the  Corwins',  where  assembled  not  only  the 
members  but  the  wives  and  children  and  two  of  the  mothers  of  the 
Class,  Mrs.  Curtis  and  Mrs.  Thacher.  Two  hours  of  introduction 
and  conversation,  a  few  songs  from  an  improvised  quartet  of 
men  who  once  traveled  with  the  glee  clubs,  first  and  second,  and 
tea  from  the  table  presided  over  by  Miss  Margaret  Corwin,  filled 
the  afternoon. 


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Monday  forenoon — more  arrivals  and  more  of  the  coveted  time 
together  at  headquarters,  and  about  noon  an  exodus  toward  the 
Country  Club  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Whitney.  Here  were  gathered 
the  men,  women  and  children  of  the  Class,  meeting  on  the  lawns 
and  verandas  and  lunching  together.  Even  the  unattached  men 
who  insisted  upon  a  bachelor  table  presided  over  by  Tuney  Play- 
ford,  entered  fully  into  the  spirit  of  '87's  first  family  reunion. 
After  luncheon,  Fred  Hill  organized  a  boys'  club  in  a  few  minutes 
and  a  game  of  ball  between  the  sons  and  their  daddies  gave  to 
the  latter  more  physical  exercise  than  they  appeared  to  have  had 
for  some  time.  It  is  unnecessary  to  mention  the  score,  which, 
however,  indicated  the  intention  and  ability  of  the  next  generation 
to  do  in  baseball  "as  their  daddies  used  to  do."  Even  a  home  run 
by  Henry  Ketcham  failed  to  save  the  game  for  the  veterans  against 
the  hard  hitting  and  rapid  fielding  of  such  coming  kings  of  the 
diamond  as  Trevor  Hill,  John  Rogers,  the  younger,  Wallace  Corwin 
and  the  Doc  Knight  of  a  few  years  hence. 

Some  of  the  men  spent  an  hour  at  the  royal  game  of  golf,  and 
the  rest  scattered  over  the  lawns  and  verandas  of  the  Country  Club, 
in  ever  changing  groups,  which  were  only  with  the  greatest  diffi- 
culty gathered  together  for  the  photograph  which  adorns  another 
page  of  this  volume. 


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King,  Brownson,  Young,  and  Ketcham  in  action 


The  Byers  Hall  Reception,,  a  Sheff  function  unknown  in  the  days 
of  our  youth,  but  now  a  prominent  feature  of  Commencement  week, 
was  attended  by  some  of  the  men  and  more  of  the  wives  late 
Monday  afternoon.,  and  the  Glee  Club  concert  Monday  evening 
attracted  not  a  few. 

Tuesday  was,  of  course,  the  great  day  of  all.  A  few  attended 
the  meeting  under  the  auspices  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Sigma  Xi 
in  the  Chapel,  but  the  Class  was  present  almost  en  masse  at  the 
Alumni  meeting  over  which  Jim  Sheffield  presided,  giving  new 
evidence  of  those  engaging  oratorical  qualities  which  are  so 
familiar  to  us  all.  [Sheffield's  speech  is  reproduced  elsewhere.] 

The  photograph  on  the  steps  of  the  old  Library  assembled  every 
member  of  the  Class  except  Sheffield,  who  was  unable  to  escape 
from  the  Alumni  meeting  in  time,  and  some  of  the  sons,  who,  in 
some  instances  may  be  detected  in  the  picture  by  their  compara- 
tively youthful  appearance,  although  there  is  but  little  apparent 
difference  in  age  between  Tuney  Playford  and  Vic  Caldwell's 
eldest,  who  graduated  with  the  Class  of  1912. 

Then  came  a  hasty  noonday  luncheon  at  headquarters,  quickly 
followed  by  the  advent  of  the  ladies  and  children  who  came  to 
join  us  on  the  way  to  the  Field  for  the  Harvard  game.  Two  trolley 


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cars  were  waiting  on  College  Street  bedecked  with  the  '87  numerals, 
for  the  days  when  '87  marched  the  two  weary  miles  from  the 
Campus  to  the  ball  field  are  forever  gone  by — not  that  we  can't  but 
because  we  have  gained  the  courage  to  say  we  won't.  The  Wheeler 
and  Wilson  Band  discoursed  and  the  men  filled  the  two  cars  with 
the  exception  of  a  part  of  the  second,  set  aside  for  the  ladies  and 
children. 

The  progress  to  the  Field  was  intentionally  interrupted  far  out 
Chapel  Street,  that  we  might  return  with  cheers  the  greetings 
waved  to  us  from  a  veranda  by  little  Virginia  Hubbard  Curtis, 
the  four-year-old  daughter  of  our  deceased  valedictorian. 


THE  HEAD  OF  THE  PARADE 
G.  E.  Hill,  Sheffield,  Phelps 


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'87  ON  THE  STAND  AT  THE  GAME 


Outside  the  ball  field  we  formed  in  orderly  cavalcade,  and  headed 
the  graduates'  parade  around  the  Field,  not  in  the  frivolous  uniforms 
affected  by  some  of  the  classes  less  endowed  with  graduate  dignity 
and  less  confident  of  their  personal  beauty,  but  in  the  saner  gar- 
ments of  the  street,  ornamented  only  by  a  modest  hat  band  of  blue 
bearing  the  golden  numerals  of  '87. 

The  game  was  only  an  incident.  It  is  marvelous  to  how  few  of 
us  the  final  score  of  a  ball  game  now  means  what  it  did  a  quarter 
of  a  century  ago.  We  want  to  see  Yale  win.  We  burst  forth  into 
song  and  cheers  of  enthusiasm  while  it  is  being  won — and  in  a 
week,  have  to  stop  and  ponder  a  moment  to  recall  whether  Yale 
won  or  not.  It  is  no  longer  an  event  to  be  set  down  in  history 
beside  Waterloo,  Sedan  and  Gettysburg.  And  yet,  even  so,  it  gave 
us  added  zest  that  Yale  won  the  game,  by  a  score  of  nine  to  six. 

There  was  no  demand  for  a  triumphant  march  down  Chapel 
Street,  but  peacefully  we  sought  our  side-tracked  trolley  cars  and 
were  soon  back  at  the  corner  of  York  and  Chapel  Streets,  and  in 
marching  order  for  our  round  of  visits  to  our  old  friends  of  the 
faculty. 

A  few  lusty  cheers  brought  Baldy  to  the  veranda.  He  claimed 
that  he  recognized  us  at  sight,  but  how  far  the  presence  in  the 
front  rank  of  Billy  Hand,  with  the  old  faithful  '87  banner,  which 
has  traveled  with  us  through  the  intervening  years,  contributed  to 
that  recognition,  he  failed  to  mention.  The  sound  of  Baldy's 


1902 


1906  and  1909 
OTHER  CLASSES  ON  THE  FIELD 


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G.  E.  Hill 


Sheffield,  Hand,  Phelps 


melodious  voice  for  a  moment  carried  us  back  to  the  classroom  in 
Lyceum,  but  as  we  gathered  the  substance  of  his  greeting,  the 
illusion  was  dispelled. 

More  cheers,  and  we  moved  on  to  where  Andy  Phillips  awaited 
us,  with  that  broad  smile  with  which  he  sometimes  helped  a  fellow 
over  an  insurmountable  stumbling-block  in  classroom. 

It  was  a  long  hike  to  Prexy  Dwight's,  but  it  was  worth  it. 
Ninety-two  was  at  his  door  when  we  arrived,  but  we  gave  dear 
old  Prexy  enough  time  to  exchange  the  '92  button  he  wore  while 
addressing  them  for  the  '87  button  which  adorned  his  coat  as  he 
came  forward  to  greet  "the  first  Class  to  graduate  under  his  admin- 
istration." Every  man  marveled  at  the  kindly  treatment  which 
time  had  bestowed  upon  him,  realizing  how  little  its  passage  has 
dimmed  his  eye,  changed  the  kindly  face  or  lessened  the  enthusiasm 
of  this  grand  old  man  of  Yale. 

A  short  cut  soon  brought  us  face  to  face  with  President  Hadley 
at  his  home,  made  conspicuous  by  being  directly  opposite  the  resi- 
dence of  Billy  Phelps.  He  greeted  us  with  a  warmth  which  con- 
vinced us  that  but  for  '87,  Yale  College  would  never  have  been 
founded,  or  if  founded,  would  have  soon  perished  in  the  wilds  of 


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Saybrook.      He  has   not  been   asked  to   revise   the   stenographer's 
notes,  which  read  as  follows: 

Well,  that  is  good  for  '87.  I  was  just  talking  with  a  She  if  class  that 
graduated  some  ten  years  after  you  about  their  enormous  wealth.  When 
thinking  of  the  Class  of  '87,  I  think  of  Progress  and  Poverty.  This  is  a 
little  different  from  the  old  recitation  room  there  on  the  ground  floor  of  Old 
Chapel,  but  I  see  a  lot  of  the  same  faces,  and  I  am  glad  of  the  memories 
of  those  days.  You  had  lots  of  fun  on  that  book.  Sumner  did  not  exactly 
like  having  the  book  used.  He  thought  it  was  too  good  an  advertisement 
for  Henry  George,  and  he  was  afraid  you  might  put  his  principles  into 
practice.  Well,  we  depend  upon  you  here  to  look  after  everything.  We 
have  Corwin  to  run  Sheff  and  Billy  Phelps  to  run  Academic.  Whenever 
there  is  any  serious  misunderstanding  or  rivalry  between  Sheff  and 
Academic,  we  call  Billy  Phelps  and  Corwin  into  a  dark  room,  give  them 
sharp  knives  and  let  them  settle  it.  You  will  notice  as  a  result  that  they 
have  large  charity  towards  the  failings  of  the  whole  world.  Eighty-seven 
always  was  a  charitable  Class.  In  those  days,  the  faculty  needed  it,  and  I 
thank  you  for  it,  and  I  thank  you  for  furnishing  such  a  good  presiding 
officer  for  the  meeting  this  morning. 

It  was  but  the  work  of  a  moment  to  dismiss  the  band,  break 
ranks  and  dash  into  the  front  yard  of  Billy  Phelps'  home  at  110 
Whitney  Avenue,  where  Mrs.  Phelps  was  entertaining  the  ladies  of 
the  Class.  There  was  but  little  time  to  be  spent  here,  but  we  marched 
in  single  file  in  at  the  front  door,  past  the  punch-bowl  (where  each 
man  made  a  short  but  highly  appreciated  halt),  out  the  back  door, 
and  thence  in  knots  to  the  near-by  New  Haven  Lawn  Club,  where 
the  reunion  dinner,  the  culminating  event  of  the  week  was  made 
ready. 

To  mention  the  food  and  drink  beyond  the  mere  fact  that  they 
were  "sauced  by  appetite"  would  be  unnecessary  were  it  not  for  the 
fact  that  the  chief  feature  of  the  dinner  was  spring  lamb  raised 
by  one  of  our  farmer  members,  Ollie  Jennings,  on  his  Fairfield 
farm. 

Each  man  found  a  place  of  his  own  choice,  save  those  few  victims 
of  the  committee's  decree,  who  were  placed  at  the  speakers'  table 
flanking  Billy  Phelps,  the  toastmaster,  on  either  side.  Here  were 
Fred  Hill,  filled  with  eloquence  to  the  muzzle,  Jim  Sheffield,  cool, 
calm,  collected,  and  ready  for  any  oratorical  emergency,  and 
near  by  Eddie  Burke,  Jim  Archbald  and  the  Class  Secretary,  each 


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SOME  OF  BILLY'S  HOUSE  PARTY 


scared  almost  beyond  hope  at  the  prospect  of  having  to  stand  up 
later  and  speak  to  the  assembled  '87  crowd. 

How  the  evening  progressed,,  with  what  intimate  interchanges  of 
wit  and  song  and  personal  touch,  can  never  be  set  forth  in  cold 
type  to  the  satisfaction  of  writer  or  reader.  To  those  who  were 


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scared  alirtu**t     ^TbiMHjiw  at  the  prospect  of  havifi^0  to 
later  and  speak  to  the  assembled  '87  crowd. 

How  the  evening  progressed,  with  what  intimate  interchanges  of 
wit  and  song  and  personal  touch,  can  never  be  set  forth  in  cold 
type  to  the  satisfaction  of  writer  or  reader.  To  those  who  were 


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there  it  is  a  memory  so  vivid  that  it  needs  no  printed  word  to 
recall  it;  to  those  who  were  not  there,  it  can  only  be  partly  created 
by  referring  to  the  flashlight  picture  and  the  speeches. 

Two  presentations  and  a  visit  from  '87  S.,  interrupted  the  pro- 
gram as  it  was  planned  and  set  forth  upon  the  menu  card.  It  has 
rarely  happened,  at  least  in  the  presence  of  his  classmates,  that 
Billy  Phelps  has  ever  for  a  moment  lost  that  complete  command 
over  himself  which  we  all  know  so  well.  But  the  presentation  to 
him  of  a  loving  cup  in  recognition  not  alone  of  his  "long  distance 
championship/'  won  by  coming  all  the  way  from  Munich  to  be 
with  us,  but  even  more  of  the  affection  of  the  Class  for  him,  and 
its  appreciation  of  his  many  services  to  it,  put  him  hors  de  combat 
for  a  moment.  Just  how  he  "pulled  himself  together"  and  "came 
back"  will  appear  from  the  stenographer's  notes. 

The  other  presentation  was  the  grandfather's  cup.  No  one  knew 
until  Charlie  Keeler  arrived  in  New  Haven  that  there  was  a  grand- 
father in  the  Class,  but  when  he  announced  that  there  was  a  daugh- 
ter in  his  daughter's  home,  there  was  a  spontaneous  demand  for  a 
cup  for  little  Dorothy  Lee  Hart,  the  first  grandchild  of  '87. 

Much  interest  and  amusement  accompanied  the  reproduction  on 
a  screen  of  the  photographs  of  the  men  as  they  appeared  in  1887. 
That  some  of  them  were  not  recognized  at  first  was  not  surprising, 
but  there  was  no  one  of  them  which  entirely  escaped  recognition — 
the  name  of  the  man  passing  from  one  to  another  and  then  rising 
into  a  mighty  shout  as  the  recognition  became  general. 

With  the  coffee  and  cigars  came  the  general  shifting  of  chairs 
which  preceded  Billy  Phelps'  demand  for  order  and  quiet,  which 
he  enforced  by  a  policeman's  club  made  from  an  old  fence  rail  and 
that  day  sent  to  the  Secretary  by  Horace  Hart.  He  opened  pro- 
ceedings as  follows: 

The  Toastmaster: 

I  will  ask  all  the  men  to  rise  while  the  names  are  read  of  those 
members  of  the  Class  who  have  died  since  the  last  reunion. 

THOMAS  HAMLIN  CURTIS  CLINTON  LARUE  HARE 

JOHN  HOWARD  HUME  HENRY  IVISON 


DOROTHY  LEE  HART 
Keeler's  Granddaughter  with  '87  "Grandfather's  Cup' 


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The  Toastmaster: 

One  of  the  most  difficult  things  in  this  world  is  for  a  man  to  make 
a  speech  to  friends  whom  he  has  known  intimately  for  twenty-five 
years.  They  know  him  perhaps  better  than  he  knows  himself,  and 
how  impossible  at  such  a  time  as  this  would  it  be  to  express  fine  senti- 
ments in  lapidary  phraseology !  When  Socrates  made,  not  his  post- 
prandial, but  his  pre-cocktail  speech  to  the  men  of  Athens,  he  said 
that  it  would  be  absurd  to  come  before  these  people  whom  he  had 
met  on  the  street  every  day  and  make  a  carefully  prepared  speech 
like  a  schoolboy.  The  occasion  was  at  the  same  moment  too  infor- 
mal and  too  serious  for  elaborate  effects  of  rhetoric  and  elocution. 
"Leave  your  damnable  faces  and  begin."  We  are  not  going  to 
have  any  oratory  tonight — but  rather  some  friendly  talks.  It  is 
a  good  thing  for  us,  after  a  quarter  of  a  century,  to  sit  around  the 
same  table  and  look  into  the  old  familiar  faces,  which  are  not 
gone,  but  are  right  here,  illuminated  with  the  light  of  a  thousand 
reminiscences.  I  wish  we  might  have  had  the  whole  Class  together, 
with  only  those  absent  who  are  now  with  God.  This  may  not  be: 
but  I  miss  some  men  who  ought  to  be  here.  This  reunion  is  like 
heaven — as  the  old  divine  said.  When  he  got  to  heaven  he 
would  be  sure  to  see  some  there  whom  he  had  not  expected  to  see, 
and  sure  to  miss  some  that  he  thought  would  certainly  be  present. 
Now  I  am  honestly  surprised  to  see  George  Woodward  here,  be- 
cause George  comes  from  Philadelphia,  where  it  is  impossible  to 
get  a  running  start.  A  Philadelphia  man  sat  down  to  a  dinner  in 
New  York,  and  all  went  well  enough  till  they  reached  the  salad. 
"This  is  the  most  delicious  salad,"  said  the  Philadelphia  guest, 
"what  on  earth  is  it?"  "Why,"  replied  the  New  Yorker,  "it  is 
common  enough.  It  is  snail  salad.  Don't  you  have  snails  in 
Philadelphia?"  "Yes,"  said  the  man  from  the  Schuylkill,  "we 
have  'em,  but  we  can't  catch  'em." 

Life  does  not  strike  us  all  as  funny,  because  everybody  knows 
by  this  time  that  life  is  a  great  tragedy-and-comedy-all-mixed-up; 
but  life  is  not  always  serious,  when  we  have  plenty  of  comedy 
mingled  in  the  ingredients  thereof,  and  a  good  many  of  us  have 
that.  Life  appeals  to  me  more  and  more  as  I  advance  in  years. 
I  don't  know  anything  about  it,  but  Fred  Sprague  must  have  had 
some  serious  moments  when  he  started  for  this  reunion.  No  mem- 
ber of  the  Class  had  seen  him  since  Triennial.  That  Triennial  of 


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ours  was  what  Matthew  Arnold  would  have  called  a  fierce  propo- 
sition. No  wonder  Fred  never  came  back.  Why,,  he  never  came  to, 
until  he  reached  Chicago.  I  can  see  that  Triennial  now.  For 
twenty-two  years  I  have  tried  in  vain  to  forget  it.  There  were  set 
speeches  on  the  program,,  but  none  at  the  dinner.  The  actual 
speeches  were  impromptu,  and  were  delivered  by  all  those  present 
at  the  same  moment.  What  speeches  they  were !  Each  one  came 
from  the  heart. 

Then  at  our  Decennial,  not  everything  happened  according  to 
the  carefully  prepared  plan.  Dick  Thomas  was  doing  his  best  to 
make  a  speech  and  some  were  actually  listening  to  him,  when  just 
as  he  approached  his  peroration,  Tuney  Playford  shouted  in  my 
ear,  "D — d  good  fellow,  Thomas,  but  he  can't  make  a  speech,  can 
he?"  Dick  got  no  further. 

There  have  been  some  humorously  embarrassing  moments  at  this 
blessed  reunion.  Bob  Corwin,  who  has  worked  night  and  day  to 
make  things  happen  right,  met  one  member  of  the  Class  who  had 
not  been  here  for  some  time.  He  rushed  up  to  Bob,  and  said  with 
an  expectant  smile,  "You  remember  -  —  ?"  "Sure,"  said  Bob, 
"where  is  he?" 

The  most  splendid  feature  of  this  reunion  has  been  the  Class 
house.  This  has  been  such  a  success  that  I  want  to  say  right  here  that 


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at  every  single  reunion  in  the  future  we  are  going  to  have  a  house, 
even  if  it  takes  Ollie  Jennings'  last  cent.  I  don't  care  what  it 
costs,  we  are  going  to  have  it.  Never  since  the  first  day  of  Fresh- 
man year  have  we  been  so  united,  so  actually  together,  as  during 
the  last  few  days. 

Nothing  amuses  me  more,  when  I  look  into  your  faces,  than  the 
common  talk  about  the  "Yale  type."  It  is  often  assumed  that  one 
of  the  worst  things  about  Yale  is  that  it  runs  all  men  into  one 
mould,  and  that  when  they  graduate,  they  are  all  alike.  Now  all 
Yale  men  are  alike  in  one  respect — loyalty  to  Yale.  This  loyal 
attitude  is  just  as  true  of  '87  as  of  all  other  classes — but  there  the 
similarity  begins  and  ends.  When  Yale  is  attacked  in  any  part 
of  the  world,  then  immediately,  to  an  outsider,  all  Yale  men  look 
alike,  because  they  are  all  in  the  same  attitude.  But  just  think  of 
the  men  sitting  here  tonight,  and  at  once  the  idea  of  the  "Yale 
type"  becomes  laughable.  And  I  think  that  there  never  was  a 
class  that  had  so  many  varying  units  as  ours.  It  has  always  been  a 
hard  task  to  properly  place  '87,  because  we  were  composed  of  some 
hundred  and  fifty  individualities  absolutely  differing  from  one 
another,  and  totally  different  from  the  members  of  all  preceding 
and  following  classes.  The  Yale  type,  quotha!  Consider  Bill 
Kent.  In  the  stone  age  there  may  have  been  some  primitive  man 
like  Bill,  but  if  there  were,  he  was  drowned  in  the  flood.  We  have 
fairly  complete  records  of  human  beings  since  that  inundation,  and 
there  has  been  no  person  even  remotely  resembling  our  Bill.  Then 
for  a  pair  of  heavenly  twins,  take  Gerald  Beard  and  Toot  Bigelow. 
Not  only  is  Toot  unlike  any  other  individual,  but  he  does  not  bear 
the  slightest  resemblance  to  himself.  He  passes  through  phases, 
like  Saint-Beuve.  He  presents  the  anomaly  of  passing  through 
countless  phases  without  ever  being  phased.  This  to  me  is  one  of 
Toot's  greatest  charms.  He  is  always  interesting  because  always 
different.  In  the  variety  of  his  personalities,  Toot  is  ever  unpre- 
dictable, but  I  had  rather  sit  at  his  feet  and  hear  him  talk  than 
listen  to  almost  any  one  of  our  latter-day  prophets. 

As  specimens  of  the  "Yale  type,"  look  at  the  University  Crew  as 
it  rowed  at  New  London  in  our  Junior  year.  Four  men  from  '87 
sat  in  our  victorious  shell — John  Rogers,  Ernest  Caldwell,  Middle- 
brook,  and  Hartridge.  Four  men  have  never  lived  who  were  more 
unlike  than  these  four.  The  only  thing  they  had  in  common  was 


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ability  to  row.  That  they  had  in  good  measure,  for  there  has  never 
been  a  class  in  any  college  in  the  world  that  has  had  such  a  rowing 
record  as  our  beloved  Class  of  '87.  Caldwell  rowed  in  thirteen 
races  while  he  was  at  Yale,  and  never  lost  a  race ! 

This  seems  to  me  the  salient  characteristic  of  '87 — its  collection 
of  units.     Indeed,  the  astounding  miracle  of  humanity  consists  in 


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this,  that  although  the  human  race  in  the  long  run  balances  up  to  a 
certain  average,  that  although  human  passions  and  desires  are  so 
similar  that  a  play  by  Sophocles  is  as  true  to  life  now  as  a  play  by 
Clyde  Fitch,  that  the  ideal  of  a  gentleman  set  forth  by  Confucius 
is  precisely  the  ideal  in  London  and  New  York  today — still,  each 
person  in  the  world  is  in  the  last  analysis  unlike  any  other  person 
in  the  past  or  in  the  present.  This  is  the  miracle  of  Personal 
Identity.  No  class  at  Yale,  however,  has  exhibited  so  excellent  an 
illustration  of  the  miracle  as  '87.  Some  of  you  have  been  very 
successful;  some  of  you  have  been  only  moderately  successful; 
some  of  you  have  not  yet  been  successful  at  all.  But  each  one  of 
you  has  the  pride  and  pleasure  of  knowing  that  you  are  unique, 
that  you  do  not  resemble  anyone  else,  that  you  have  something 
that  no  one  else  possesses  and  which  you  cannot  lose.  Each  one 
of  you  is  the  captain  of  his  soul. 

Now  just  as  it  was  remarkable  that  the  Yale  Crew  in  the  years 
1886  and   1887,  consisting  of  varying  and  hostile  units,  could  yet 


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unite  successfully  against  the  common  foe,  so  it  is  notable  and 
splendid  that  such  an  interesting,  such  a  peculiar,  such  a  diver- 
gent collection  of  human  beings  as  I  am  now  addressing  can  get 
together  so  loyally,  happily  and  harmoniously  as  we  have  done 
during  this  reunion.  To  tell  the  honest  truth,  I  think  this  is  the  first 
time  we  have  actually  got  together  with  no  hind-thoughts  to  disturb 
our  union.  We  are  intimate  friends  because  in  early  life  we  shared 
the  same  experiences  together,  because  we  lived  for  four  years 
beneath  the  elms.  We  ask  no  questions  of  each  other  tonight.  We 
don't  care  what  you  have  done  or  what  you  have  not  done;  we 
belong  to  each  other,  because  we  all  belong  to  '87.  While  we  were 
eating  dinner  at  the  old  house  on  Crown  Street  the  other  night,  I 
had  a  strange  feeling  that  twenty-five  years  had  been  annihilated; 
that  we  were  undergraduates  again;  that  we  had  just  come  in  from 
a  victory  at  the  Field,  and  that  we  were  all  going  to  recite  to 
Baldy  or  Tiggy  Tighe  the  next  morning,  and  had  our  lessons  to  dig- 
out.  There  is  no  friendship  on  earth  like  the  friendship  formed  by 
early  associations.  We  all  of  us  make  new  friends  by  our  occu- 
pations in  the  world;  but  these  new  friends  cannot  take  the  places 
of  those  who  are  bound  to  us  by  class  and  college  ties.  A  man  does 
not  realize  this  until  he  actually  comes  to  a  reunion  and  sees  the 
fellows  again.  I  dare  say  some  of  you  men  looked  forward  to  this 
gathering  with  no  pleasant  anticipations  at  all ;  you  regarded  it  as  a 
bore,  which  nothing  but  a  sense  of  duty  made  you  attend  and  you 
wished  in  advance  that  it  were  all  over  and  done  with,  and  that 
you  were  back  in  your  absorbing  occupations  of  family  life,  work 
and  sport.  But  when  you  got  here,  and  looked  into  each  other's 
faces,  and  remembered  all  the  intimate  associations  brought  vividly 
back  to  life  simply  by  seeing  one  another  again — then  a  mighty 
affection  for  '87  and  every  man  in  it  took  irresistible  possession  of 
your  heart.  Let  us  thank  God  that  this  is  true. 

Now  it  is  fortunate  that  we  have  Fred  Hill  here — fortunate  for 
the  Class  that  he  belongs  to  us,  for  he  has  helped  to  make  it  famous, 
and  fortunate  for  us  that  he  is  here  at  this  moment  and  that  he  is 
going  to  speak  to  us.  Fred's  achievements  in  literature  have 
brought  him  an  honorary  degree  from  Yale,  the  first  man  in  the 
Class  to  receive  this  distinction,  but  I  will  frankly  say  that  his 
success  in  literature  has  surprised  me.  As  an  undergraduate,  Fred 
was  a  witty  conversationalist,  and  original  in  his  thinking,  but  the 


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only  sign  of  literary  promise  that  he  gave  was  the  fact  that  he 
always  sharpened  his  lead  pencils  with  a  razor.  Just  why  he  did 
this  we  have  no  right  to  inquire.  It  suffices  me  that  he  did  it. 

I  have  the  honor  of  presenting  to  you  a  lawyer,  historian,  novel- 
ist,,— our  classmate,  Fred  Hill. 

Frederick  Trevor  Hill: 

Billy  Phelps,  and  the  rest  of  you:  At  bachelor  dinners,  such  as 
this,  there  is  usually  a  toast  to  "The  Ladies,"  and  it  may  be  that, 
misled  by  the  title  of  my  theme,  you  are  harboring  the  delusion  that 
I  am  to  have  the  honor  of  responding  to  some  such  sentiment  as 
"Wives  and  Sweethearts,"  for  Cupid,  if  I  remember  correctly, 
is  sometimes  referred  to  as  "The  Eternal  Boy." 

Misunderstandings  of  this  sort  are  certainly  invited  by  lack  of 
precision  in  the  use  of  words.  Witness,  for  instance,  the  experience 
of  the  counsel,  who,  in  examining  an  old  negro,  asked  him  where 
he  had  first  met  his  wife.  "I  didn't  meet  her,"  responded  the 
witness.  "What  do  you  mean  by  that?"  demanded  the  lawyer. 
"Well,  boss,  I  really  never  met  her.  I  reckon  she  just  sort  of 
overtook  me."  Again  you  probably  remember  what  happened  to 
the  man  who  approached  a  ticket  seller's  window  in  the  Pennsyl- 
vania railroad  station,  purse  in  hand,  and  said,  "I've  got  to  go  to 
Scranton."  "Are  you  telling  me  your  troubles,"  snapped  the  ticket 
agent,  "or  do  you  want  transportation?" 

In  view  of  these  convincing  arguments  for  verbal  precision, 
perhaps  I  had  better  explain  at  once  that  "The  Eternal  Boy," 
about  whom  I  am  to  speak  tonight,  is  not  Cupid  but  that  other 
"cherub  who  must  have  talked  long  hours  with  Puck,"  namely, 
Peter  Pan,  the  boy  who  "refused  to  grow  up."  Now  those  of  you 
who  have  read  Barrie's  story  of  Peter  Pan,  or  who  have  seen  the 
stage  version  of  that  masterpiece,  will  recall  that  there  was  war  to 
the  knife  between  Peter  Pan  and  the  villainous  pirate,  Captain 
Hook.  Well,  the  author  of  this  marvelous  tale  claims  (and  I  use  the 
word  "claims"  advisedly,  for  before  I  conclude  I  shall  show  you 
that  he  is  entirely  at  fault),  Mr.  Barrie  claims,  I  say,  that  it  was 
Peter  Pan's  "cockeyness"  which  aroused  the  Pirate's  ire,  and  kept 
it  at  white  heat. 

The  boy  was  unquestionably  "cockey."  Even  his  friend,  the 
Indian  Princess,  had  to  admit  that  he  tried  her  sorely  at  times. 


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But  she  could  never  deny  him  anything,  you  remember,  because,  as 
she  put  it,  "he  still  had  his  first  teeth." 

Those  of  us  who  are  parents  understand  exactly  how  she  felt 
about  that ! 

Now,  I  realize  that  it  is  a  perilous  thing  for  anyone  to  dispute 
an  author's  statements  concerning  the  children  of  his  brain. 
Nevertheless,  I  feel  compelled  to  take  issue  with  Mr.  Barrie  when 
he  asserts  that  it  was  Peter  Pan's  "cockeyness"  which  caused  the 
Pirate  Hook  to  wage  his  unceasing  warfare  against  the  boy.  Well 
would  it  have  been  for  Captain  Hook  if  his  differences  with  the 
lad  had  been  as  simple  as  that!  Well  would  it  have  been  for 
Captain  Hook,  I  say,  if  his  only  ground  of  complaint  against  the 
boy  had  been  a  little  "cockeyness"  which  might  have  been  cured 
by  a  sound  spanking  such  as  is  good  for  the  best  of  boys  at  times. 
But  the  trouble  between  them  was  something  far  more  serious, 
far  more  subtle  and  basic  than  that,  and  I  will  tell  you  what  it  was. 
It  lay  in  the  fact — the  terrible  fact — that  the  boy  refused  to  grow 
up,  and  insisted  on  still  remaining  a  boy,  while  the  Pirate  grew 


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older  every  day,  and  found  himself  sternly  excluded  from  the 
Court  of  Boyville  whose  joys  he  once  had  known. 

Now,  there  you  have  a  situation,  quite  sufficient  to  explain  the 
bitterest  of  feuds  and  we,  who  are  now  celebrating  our  Twenty- 
fifth  Anniversary,  must,  I  think,  feel  some  sympathy  for  the  lonely 
old  buccaneer  as  he  peers  enviously  into  the  Realm  of  Youth  over 
the  rising  wall  of  years,  gnawing  his  grizzled  mustachios  and 
clenching  his  suspiciously  rheumatic  hands ! 

But  sympathize  with  him  as  we  may,  one  cannot  exclude  the 
thought  of  what  a  fool  he  was.  If  instead  of  trying  to  tear  down 
the  barriers  of  age,  and  hurl  the  fragments  at  the  younger  genera- 
tion, he  had  displayed  some  interest  in  and  sympathy  for  their 
enthusiasms — if  he  had  proved  himself  a  sportsman  instead  of  a 
spoil-sport;  if  he  had  formed  a  boys'  club  among  the  "Lost  Boys" 
instead  of  trying  to  use  a  club  on  them;  if,  in  a  word,  he  had  made 
himself  a  part  of  them,  instead  of  apart  from  them,  I  venture  to 
assert  that  he  would  not  only  have  soon  ceased  to  be  a  hungry- 
hearted  outsider  but  would  have  made  a  name  and  fame  for  him- 
self, as  one  of  those  fortunate  leaders  of  boy  life,  who  live  again 
in  their  companionship  with  youth  and  are  permitted  once  more 
to  dream  its  splendid  dreams. 

By  Jove,  just  fancy  what  a  magnificent  club  leader  that  adven- 
ture-crammed Pirate  would  have  made !  and  what  an  opportunity 
he  missed!  Why,  I'd  like  to  bet  that  Captain  Hook  could  have 
depopulated  every  other  boys'  club  in  the  "Never  Never  Land" 
and  made  the  other  leaders  absolutely  green  with  envy ! 

Think,  too,  of  what  a  perfectly  ideal  scoutmaster  he  would  have 
made!  He  wouldn't  have  had  to  sit  up  nights  learning  how  to  tie 
knots  and  studying  the  Scout's  Manual,  in  order  to  keep  a  few 
pages  ahead  of  his  patrol.  He  would  have  had  the  whole  business 
right  at  his  finger's  ends,  and  the  mere  thought  of  being  "given 
the  hook"  would  have  been  quite  sufficient  to  maintain  discipline 
among  the  most  refractory  squad  of  youngsters  that  ever  tried  to 
trail  a  mile  or  light  a  fire  by  using  "only  two  matches,  or  a  burning 
glass." 

Of  course,  I  do  not  know  how  Captain  Hook  would  have  suc- 
ceeded as  a  Big  Brother.  I  wonder  if  you  have  ever  heard  of  the 
Big  Brothers?  It's  rather  a  silly  name,  I  think,  but  the  idea 
behind  it  is  not  at  all  silly  for  it  enables  men  like  Captain  Hook, — 


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and,  dare  I  say,  men  like  you  and  me? — to  keep  in  touch  with 
youth.  Let  me  tell  you  something  about  it.  In  New  York  when  a 
boy  is  brought  into  the  Children's  Court  for  any  reason,  he  is 
assigned  to  the  care  of  a  man  who  volunteers  to  be  his  "guide, 
philosopher  and  friend."  This  man  is  in  no  sense  of  the  word  an 
officer  of  the  court.  His  business  is  to  make  that  boy  understand 
that  there  is  someone  outside  of  his  family  who  stands  behind  him 
and  is  ready  at  all  times  to  sympathize  with  him,  listen  to  him,  and 
give  him  sound,  sensible  advice.  There  are,  even  in  the  selfish 
city  of  New  York,  hundreds  of  men  who  are  engaged  in  work  of 
that  character,  and  I  can  tell  you  that  their  influence  for  good  is 
absolutely  incalculable.  I  said  a  few  moments  ago  that  I  did  not 
know  how  Captain  Hook  would  have  succeeded  in  a  job  like  that. 
But  on  second  thought  I  make  bold  to  state  that  he  would  have 
done  splendidly  at  it.  In  the  first  place,  it  would  have  been  good 
for  him,  because  it  would  have  brought  him  into  close  touch  with  all 
sorts  and  conditions  of  the  young  male  animal,  and  shown  him 
points  of  view  which  would  never  otherwise  have  come  within  his 
horizon  at  all.  It  would  have  brought  him  into  that  intimate  com- 
radeship which  most  fathers  would  like  to  enjoy  with  their  sons, 
but  which  is  denied  to  many,  and  all  this  would,  as  I  say,  have 
been  good  for  Captain  Hook.  And  Captain  Hook  would  have  been 
good  for  the  boys  because  he  was  one  of  those  reserved  men  who 
do  not  obtrude  themselves  unduly  upon  a  boy's  notice,  and  who 
win  their  confidence  without  seeming  to  seek  it,  speaking  seldom, 
but  always  to  the  point.  He  was  a  born  master  of  men,  was  that 
old  Pirate  Chief,  and  if  I  were  a  judge  of  the  Children's  Court 
that  is  just  the  kind  of  man  I  would  like  to  put  in  charge  of  some 
of  my  most  difficult  wards. 

Of  course,  there  are  some  fields  of  activity  which  a  wise  Captain 
Hook  would  leave  severely  alone.  For  instance,  if  he  had  tried  to 
keep  himself  young  by  getting  a  professorship  of  English  at  Yale 
and  forming  a  Pundit  Club,  Billy  Phelps  would  have  nailed  him  to 
his  own  mast !  And  if  he  tried  to  circle  Bob  Corwin's  end  in  getting 
next  to  the  boys  in  Sheff,  he  would  have  been  downed  in  good  old 
familiar  manner.  Moreover,  being  a  bachelor  he  could  not  hope  to 
renew  his  youth  by  having  a  son  on  the  Yale  Football  Team  like 
Henry  Ketcham.  Neither  could  he  have  competed  with  Brownson, 
or  Thacher,  or  Pettee,  or  Kent,  or  Weed,  or  Bissell  or  any  of  you 


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who  live  right  in  the  heart  of  Boyville.  But  the  point  I  wish  to 
make  is  that  there  were  and  are  lots  of  ways,  by  which  Captain 
Hook,  by  which  all  the  Captain  Hooks  of  grizzled  mustachios  and 
suspiciously  rheumatic  hands  can  keep  in  touch  with  youth,  and 
we've  got  to  do  this,  every  Captain  Hook  of  us,  if  we  are  to  be  of 
any  further  use  in  the  world.  The  most  useless  human  being  on 
earth  today  is  the  man  who  lives  constantly  in  the  past,  intolerant 
of  new  ideas  and  fresh  ideals,  unresponsive  to  and  unobservant  of 
the  vital,  living  forces  of  this  age.  The  man  who  sends  his  boy  to 
school  and  does  not  become  something  of  a  schoolboy;  the  man 
who  sends  his  son  to  college  and  does  not,  for  the  time  being, 
become  something  of  an  undergraduate;  the  man  who  having  no 
child  of  his  own  does  not  interest  himself  in  the  youth  of  his  land 
is  not  playing  the  game.  He  is  simply  playing  solitaire  and  cheat- 
ing himself  besides. 

I  tell  you  there  never  was  a  really  great  man  in  this  country  who 
did  not  have  something  of  the  big  boy  about  him  to  the  very  day 
of  his  death.  When  a  man  loses  the  "play  instinct"  there  isn't 
much  of  him  that's  left  alive. 

He  grows  formal  with  men 
And  with  women  polite, 
And  distrustful  of  both, 
When  they're  out  of  his  sight. 
He  eats  for  his  stomach 
And  drinks  for  his  head 
And  loves  for  his  pleasure 
And  'tis  time  he  was  dead. 

We  are  living  in  a  most  interesting,  the  most  vital,  and  I  am 
almost  tempted  to  say  the  most  critical  period  in  the  history  of 
our  Republic.  We  are  already  facing,  or  we  are  soon  to  face  great 
innovations  in  our  form  of  government,  vast  changes  in  our  eco- 
nomic system,  and  if  I  am  not  greatly  mistaken,  an  entire  readjust- 
ment of  our  whole  social  and  industrial  status.  I  do  not  say  this 
in  any  spirit  of  alarm.  I  do  not  think  there  is  anything  to  be 
alarmed  about.  But  I  do  think  there  is  something  to  think  about, 
and  we  have  got  to  think  about  it,  or  we  will  have  our  thinking  done 
for  us  by  minds  less  disciplined,  less  matured,  but  more  virile  than 
our  own.  It  is  no  time  for  us  to  "sit  with  our  backs  to  the  sunlight 


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and  sing  requiems  to  our  own  shadows."  It  is  time  for  us  to  take 
precautions  against  the  enervating  influences  of  sluggish  blood, 
and  to  prove  ourselves  the  comrades  and  not  the  critics  of  the  rising 
generation.  It  is  high  time  for  us  to  stop  snubbing  "The  Eternal 
Boy"  for  his  "cockeyness"  and  to  form  an  offensive  and  defensive 
alliance  with  him  against  all  the  chicken-hearted  calamity  howlers, 
and  all  the  self-appointed  apostles  of  discontent  who  aspire  to 
leadership  for  want  of  better  men. 

Fellow  Pirates,  Brother  Buccaneers,  Captain  Hooks  of  '87 !  Let 
us  make  a  truce  with  Peter  Pan — the  Spirit  of  Eternal  Youth — 
before  it  is  too  late,  so  that  no  matter  what  our  age  may  be,  we  can 
still  prove  that  we  are  young  enough  not  only  to  understand  youth, 
but  to  learn  of  it,  and  to  work  with  it,  to  the  end,  that  this  nation, 
under  God,  may  have  indeed  a  new  and  splendid  birth  of  freedom. 

The  Toastmaster: 

Through  the  kindness  of  one  of  our  friends  whom  we  all  know, 
we  are  going  to  have  some  stereopticon  pictures  of  Yale  life  in  our 
day,  and  some  portraits  of  the  Yale  men  as  we  then  knew  them. 
Now  let  some  one  switch  off  the  lights,  and  as  these  faces  appear, 
let  the  first  man  who  thinks  he  recognizes  the  portrait  shout  the 
name. 


The  Toastmaster: 

I  have  two  announcements  to  make,  both  of  which  will  interest 
you.  Mrs.  Virginia  Hubbard  Curtis,  the  mother  of  John  and  Tom, 
who  some  years  ago  founded  the  John  Hubbard  Curtis  prize  at 
Yale  for  original  work  in  English,  has  given  today  a  sum  of  money 
to  found  a  scholarship  in  honor  of  Tom,  our  Class  valedictorian. 
This  scholarship  will  be  known  as  the  Thomas  Hamlin  Curtis 
Scholarship.  There  is  no  woman  in  the  world  more  interested  in 
the  Class  of  '87  than  Mrs.  Curtis,  and  her  love  for  the  Class  is 
shown  in  the  spirit  of  self-sacrifice  that  has  dictated  these  generous 
gifts.  She  has  also  provided  all  the  flowers  on  our  table  tonight. 
I  suggest  that  we  all  rise  as  a  tribute  of  respect  to  this  wonderful 
woman.  [The  Class  rose.] 


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AN   '87  MEMORIAL  ROOM   IN   WRIGHT   HALL 


A  Member  of  the  Class: 

I  move  that  the  thanks  and  greetings  of  the  Class  be  sent  to 
Mrs.  Curtis  as  an  expression  of  our  appreciation.  [This  was 
immediately  voted.] 


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The  Toastmaster: 

I  wish  that  we  might  sometime  express  to  the  three  grand  women 
of  '87  our  affection  and  respect.  I  refer,  first,  to  Mrs.  Curtis,  then 
to  that  splendid  woman,  the  mother  of  Bob  Maxwell,  now  nearly 
ninety  years  old,  and  last,  but  not  least,  to  the  mother  of  Bill 
Thacher,  who  is  a  great  Yale  mother.  We  are  all  '87,  but  she  is 
eighty-eight ! 

I  said  I  had  two  announcements  to  make.  The  second  is  the 
gift  by  a  member  of  '87  of  two  memorial  suites  in  the  new  Freshman 
dormitory,  Wright  Hall.  Both  of  these  suites  will  commemorate 
the  Class  of  '87.  The  donor  says  one  should  be  in  honor  of  dear  old 
Stuffy  Hunt,  one  of  the  most  loyal  Yale  men  that  ever  lived,  and 
I  am  happy  that  he  has  chosen  his  name.  The  naming  of  the 
other  suite  has  been  left  to  us,  and  I  am  glad  to  say  that  the  Class 
has  decided  to  honor  in  this  suite  the  names  of  John  and  Tom 
Curtis.  This  is  one  way  of  showing  our  respect  for  them,  and 
our  love  for  their  mother. 

Now  we  are  going  to  hear  from  Jim  Sheffield.  When  we  grad- 
uated from  Yale,  we  were,  of  course,  all  gentlemen.  But  when  we 
came  to  Yale,  there  were  in  the  entire  Class  only  three  finished 
gentlemen.  One  was  Jim  Sheffield,  one  was  Sam  Knight,  and  I 
am  going  to  let  each  man  here  tonight  name  the  third  one  himself. 
The  reason  why  Jim  and  Sam  do  not  look  any  older  now  than 
they  did  as  Freshmen,  is  because  they  then  looked  just  as  old  as 
they  possibly  could.  Jim  was  a  finished  man  of  the  world  when  he 
rocked  in  the  cradle.  It  is  stated,  and  I  see  no  reason  to  doubt  the 
accuracy  of  the  remark,  that  Jim  was  born  with  a  cutaway  coat  on. 
In  comparison  with  our  Jim,  Chesterfield  seems  somewhat  crude. 
But  it  is  the  man  behind  the  manner  that  counts ;  and  whenever 
our  Class  wishes  to  be  represented  in  a  public  way,  we  instinctive!}7 
turn  to  Jim.  The  greatest  Yale  gathering  ever  held  was  the  dinner 
in  New  York,  when  the  only  speakers  were  the  President  of  Yale 
and  the  President  of  the  United  States.  The  man  chosen  to  preside 
at  that  memorable  dinner  was  our  own  beloved  Jim,  whom  we  all 
admire.  Go  to  it,  Jim ! 

James  R.  Sheffield: 

Mr.  Toastmaster  and  fellows  of  '87:  It  was  certainly  worth 
coming  back  to  this  reunion,  just  to  hear  that  speech  of  Billy 


86  THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 

Phelps.  No  other  man  in  the  Class  could  have  made  it,  and  gotten 
away  alive. 

Personalities  long  since  forgotten,  peculiarities  of  which  we  had 
trustingly  hoped  we  had  outlived  even  the  memory,  all  ruthlessly 
exposed,  yet  without  hurt  or  offense,  by  the  gifted  tongue  and 
nimble  wit  of  our  beloved  Billy. 

To  what  he  has  done  for  us,  in  sacrificing  a  vacation  for  this 
anniversary,  must  be  added  our  large  man-sized  thanks  to  those 
other  classmates  like  George  Hill,  Bob  Corwin  and  Robert  Max- 
well, who  have  given  us  the  headquarters  on  Crown  Street,  with 
the  old  Fence,  the  easy  chairs,  the  agile  waiters  bringing  first  aid 
to  comradeship  and  fellowship,  and  making  it  possible  for  the  Class 
of  '87  to  live  as  one  big  family  of  boys  for  the  first  time  since 
graduation, — perhaps  for  the  first  time  since  we  entered  Yale. 

Personal  ambition,  worldly  distinction,  the  flimsy  trappings  of 
wealth  and  caste,  have  here  been  dropped,  and  in  the  atmosphere  of 
that  Crown  Street  garden,  we  have  learned  at  last  the  final  lesson 
of  our  course — the  real  manhood  of  our  Class. 

Something  stronger  than  our  selfish  interests,  more  potent  than 
the  struggle  for  riches  and  power,  has  brought  us  back.  Just 
what  it  is  can  never  be  defined.  But  was  it  not  in  part  exemplified, 
as  we  marched  to  the  ball  field  this  afternoon,  by  a  little  girl  waving 
a  tiny  blue  flag?  She  was  only  three  or  four  years  old.  Yet, 
before  her  halted  seventy  men  who  had  graduated  from  Yale 
twenty-five  years  ago — stopping  a  long  line  of  marching  men  and 
cars,  hushing  bands  of  music,  and  stilling  songs  and  cheers,  to 
pay  tribute  to  the  baby  daughter  of  a  dead  classmate.  It  may 
have  meant  little  to  her,  but  it  meant  a  lot  to  us.  It  was  the  true 
Yale  spirit,  and  the  meaning  of  it  must  have  reached  from  earth 
to  Heaven.  I  am  proud  to  have  lived  those  twenty-five  years  to 
see  the  Class  of  '87  stop  and  uncover  before  that  tiny  girl  in  blue. 

And  then,  too,  the  pictures  George  Hill  has  had  thrown  upon 
the  screen  showing  us  the  men  we  were.  Laughter  and  tears  were 
close  allies  during  those  scenes.  It  is  the  influence  on  our  lives 
of  the  men  into  whose  long  ago  faces  we  have  just  looked  that  has 
brought  us  back.  Only  a  twelfth  of  our  lives  was  spent  here;  and 
yet  the  four  years  at  Yale  are  more  often  in  our  thoughts  and  more 
memorable  in  our  lives  than  the  whole  of  our  boyhood  before  enter- 
ing, and  far  more  than  any  four  years  since  our  graduation.  One 


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87 


IN  MEMORY  OF 
ALBERT  GAY  HIKI 

OASS  OF  1687 
THE  GIFT  OF  HJS  CLASS 


MANTEL  IN   THE   HUNT  MEMORIAL  ROOM   IN   WRIGHT   HALL 

twelfth  only  of  our  entire  existence  lived  here,  yet  containing  most 
of  our  happiest  memories  and  all  of  our  warmest  friendships. 

You  cannot  think  of  Yale  in  the  abstract.  Harvard  men  may 
do  it.  Princeton  men  may  do  it.  Columbia  men  probably  do 
think  of  their  University  in  that  way.  But  it  is  not  so  with  us. 
You  cannot  recall  Yale  without  thinking  of  the  men  of  your  Class 
and  your  time,  who  made  for  us  then,  and  always  will,  our  Yale. 
In  the  keeping  alive  of  this  feeling  of  common  interest,  no  one  is 


88  THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 

more  responsible  than  our  Class  Secretary,  George  Hill.  Blame 
that  belongs  to  us,  he  always  takes.  Praise  that  belongs  to  him, 
he  always  shares.  In  his  modest  way  he  has  been  one  of  the  truest 
exponents  of  the  typical  Yale  man. 

Yale  taught  us  all  that  the  life  that  counts  is  the  life  of  hard 
work;  that  mastery  of  self  is  essential  to  leadership  of  men;  that 
victories  come  most  often  to  those  who  train  the  hardest;  and  that 
every  encounter  between  men  is  won  or  lost  in  the  long  hours  of 
preparation.  Whatever  we  were  in  college  days,  careless  or  earnest, 
idler  or  student,  we  have  since  learned  as  men,  in  the  bitter  experi- 
ences of  the  twenty-five  intervening  years,  the  truth, — the  truth 
Yale  tried  so  hard  to  make  us,  when  boys,  understand.  She  taught 
us  "ideals  are  not  useless  because  unattainable,"  and,  therefore, 
to  cling  to  ours  in  the  flush  of  triumph,  in  the  face  of  success,  in 
spite  of  defeats.  It  is  our  noblesse  oblige;  ours  in  common  with 
all  the  classes  that  since  1701  have  silently  taken  their  places  in 
Yale's  great  Hall  of  Fame. 

Fellows  of  '87,  there  is  one  man  in  this  Class  who  has  kept 
unsullied  his  faith  and  his  ideals,  and  added  to  them  an  enthu- 
siasm and  loyalty  which  is  ever  an  inspiration  for  '87.  He  went 
abroad  in  the  full  knowledge  that  if  he  returned  for  this  reunion 
he  would  lose  a  quarter  of  his  well-earned  vacation.  He  has  given 
up  three  months  of  play  and  traveled  four  thousand  miles  to  be 
with  us.  No  man  ever  paid  you  a  greater  compliment  than  did 
Billy  Phelps  when  he  boarded  the  steamer  to  return  to  help  you 
celebrate  the  Twenty-fifth  Anniversary  of  our  Class.  No  wonder 
he  is  voted,  year  after  year,  the  most  popular  instructor  at  Yale. 
Keen  of  wit,  a  fountain  of  wisdom,  distinguished  in  letters,  prince 
of  good  fellows,  loved  by  every  man  who  knows  him,  Billy  Phelps, 
your  classmates  unite  with  Yale  men  everywhere  in  acclaiming  you 
as  one  of  the  best  beloved. 

Now  it  has  been  our  custom  to  give  a  long-distance  cup  to  the 
man  who  travels  the  longest  distance  to  attend  our  reunions.  This 
year  the  Class  has  felt  no  ordinary  cup  would  meet  the  require- 
ments. It  must  be  big  indeed  to  contain  the  affection  felt  for  you 
by  every  member  of  our  Class.  I've  had  lots  of  fun  in  the  Class 
of  '87,  but  I've  never  had  as  much  pleasure  as  I  feel  tonight  in 
presenting  you  with  this  loving  cup.  It  means  all  that  the  name 
implies.  As  it  is  passed  from  man  to  man  to  drink  your  health  and 


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89 


Corwin 


G.  E    Hill 


Sheffield 


Phelps 


happiness,  it  will  gather  added  meaning  from  the  depths  of  Class 
loyalty  and  sentiment.  May  it  ever  be  a  reminder  of  what  you 
are  to  us,  and  cherished  both  by  you  and  '87  as  a  symbol  of  Yale 
comradeship,  and  so  through  the  coming  years  answer  our  heartfelt 
plea : 

Lord  God  of  Hosts,  be  with  us  yet, 

Lest  we  forget,  lest  we  forget. 

After  the  cup  had  been  presented  to  Billy  Phelps,  he  made  the 
following  remarks. 


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William  Lyon  Phelps: 

I  am  so  torn  up  between  pride  and  astonishment  that  I  don't 
know  what  to  say.  The  beauty  of  this  cup  is  a  tremendous  com- 
pliment in  itself,  but  as  I  honestly  know  what  you  men  mean  by  it, 
I  can  only  say  that  it  is  one  of  the  finest  things  that  has  ever 
happened  to  me.  So  long  as  I  live,,  and  I  hope  I  may  live  a  long 
time,  I  shall  remember  this  splendid  gift  with  the  highest  appre- 
ciation and  gratification.  I  wish  I  could  fittingly  express  just  the 
way  I  feel  about  this  magnificent  present  from  the  Class.  I  can 
only  thank  you  from  the  bottom  of  my  heart. 

You  have  given  me  this  cup  because  I  came  over  three  thousand 
miles  to  attend  this  reunion.  Let  me  say  a  word  about  this.  Five 
years  ago,  at  our  last  dinner,  I  said  that  I  had  never  made  a  single 
sacrifice,  either  in  coming  to  Yale,  or  in  coming  back  to  our  meet- 
ings. This  was  true.  I  thought  of  the  men  in  our  Class  who  had 
expended  time  and  money  to  come  from  great  distances,  who  had 
given  up  profitable  and  important  engagements;  then  I  thought  of 
myself,  who  lived  here  anyway,  and  I  felt  pretty  small  in  comparing 
myself  with  others.  But  this  year  I  had  my  chance,  an  opportunity 
to  make  a  sacrifice — to  give  up  three  months  in  Europe  in  order  to 
be  present  at  this  dinner.  I  cannot  tell  you  how  happy  I  am  to 
have  had  this  chance,  and  to  have  availed  myself  of  it.  Since  I 
reached  New  Haven,  there  has  not  been  one  moment  of  regret.  It 
has  been  all  joy  and  no  sacrifice.  I  do  not  deserve  a  single  mark 
of  recognition  for  this ;  for  I  have,  after  all,  pleased  myself  far 
more  than  I  can  possibly  have  pleased  you. 

Of  course  I  do  not  believe  one  word  of  what  Jim  Sheffield  has 
said  about  me.  It  is  pleasant  to  hear  such  language,  but  I  know 
it  is  not  true.  I  am  not  that  kind  of  a  man  at  all.  But  I  know,  in 
acting  as  your  spokesman,  he  conveyed  to  me  the  affection  of  the 
Class,  and  it  is  your  affection  that  makes  me  happy. 

Now  let  us  pass  this  loving  cup  around,  and  let  each  drink  in  turn 
to  the  Class  of  '87.  And  those  of  you  who  don't  drink — and  no  one 
has  to  drink  unless  he  wants  to — just  take  the  cup  in  your  hands 
and  smell  of  it. 

[At  this  point,  much  to  the  consternation  of  Charlie  Keeler,  the 
Toastmaster  directed  his  battery  toward  him,  singling  him  out 
for  especial  distinction  as  the  first  grandfather  in  the  Class.  An 


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92  THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 

attractive  loving  cup  was  then  presented  to  Keeler  in  recognition 
of  this  distinction,  from  which  the  Class  drank  the  health  of  the 
three  generations  of  the  Keeler  family.  Keeler  responded,  ad- 
mitting without  reluctance  his  status  as  a  grandfather,  and  feel- 
ingly pledged  himself  to  see  that  the  first  grandchild  of  '87  should 
be  nurtured  in  continuous  loyalty  to  Yale  and  '87.] 

The  Toasimaster: 

We  are  now  going  to  have  a  speech  from  dear  old  Eddie  Burke, 
if  he  can  make  it,  and  I  think  he  can.  He  is  lineally  descended — 
and  the  descent  was  very  rapid — from  Edmund  Burke,  the  great 
Irish  orator.  A  short  time  ago,  I  talked  with  an  undergraduate, 
who  bore  the  same  name  as  one  of  the  greatest  orators  in  American 
history.  I  asked  him  if  he  were  related  to  the  big  one,  and  I  found 
he  could  not  talk  at  all !  An  impediment  in  his  speech  prevented 
him  from  connected  power  of  delivery,  but  I  finally  discovered  he 
was  the  grandson  of  the  orator.  Thus  in  two  generations  speech 
stopped  altogether.  You  will  now  have  a  chance  to  see  what  the 
wear  and  tear  of  time  has  done  to  the  descendant  of  Edmund 
Burke,  but  whatever  may  be  the  result  from  the  standpoint  of 
rhetoric,  we  all  know  that  physically  and  morally  the  Irish  mega- 
phone had  nothing  on  our  Eddie.  Eddie  is  no  Dago  if  he  does 
come  from  Genoa,  for  he  comes  from  Genoa,  Nebr.,  and  he  can 
kill  any  man  in  the  state  with  a  blow  of  his  fist.  This  being  the 
case,  it  is  with  some  hesitation  that  I  make  these  introductory 
remarks.  I  hasten  to  say  that  we  are  all  proud  of  him,  and  we 
want  to  hear  him  talk. 

E.  L.  Burke: 

Billy  and  fellows:  While  Billy  was  doing  the  honors  here 
tonight  and  delighting  everybody  in  his  usual  way,  Jim  Archbald 
and  I  stole  over  to  the  Class  headquarters,  thinking  that  we  might 
get  an  opportunity  to  polish  our  speeches,  but  when  we  got  there 
we  were  stricken  with  stage  fright  and  it  was  decided  that  the  best 
way  out  of  it  was  for  Jim  and  me  to  take  a  quiet  sneak  to  Savin 
Rock  and  amid  the  good  influences  of  that  resort,  deliver  our 
speeches  to  each  other.  We  had  the  thing  all  fixed  up,  secured  an 
auto  and  gave  the  chauffeur  orders  to  go  to  Savin  Rock  as  quickly 


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93 


Burke,  Gates  and  S.  Knight 


as  possible.  The  minute  we  got  in  the  machine  he  turned  her  wide 
open  and  came  straight  to  this  Club  at  full  speed.  We  remon- 
strated, but  to  no  avail,  as  he  claimed  to  have  orders  from  Billy 
Phelps  to  bring  us  here,  so  here  we  are  in  spite  of  ourselves. 

A  few  evenings  ago  I  happened  to  have  my  wireless  to  my  ear 
when  I  began  to  get  distress  signals  from  Waterbury,  Conn.  I 
cut  in  and  learned  that  your  Class  Committee  were  in  such  dire 
straits  to  get  someone  to  talk  here  tonight,  that  in  place  of  the 
toast  "Well  Anyhow/'  by  Billy  Kent,  they  were  willing  to  accept 
"Well  Anything,"  by  anybody.  Rather  than  permit  your  Class 
Committee  to  go  into  bankruptcy,  I  decided  to  take  the  job  and 
incidentally  punish  the  Class. 

Not  long  ago  I  was  extravagant  enough  to  buy  a  new  automobile. 
I  had  so  little  knowledge  of  its  internal  anatomy  that  when  I  took 
the  wheel  I  never  knew  what  was  going  to  happen.  It  usually 


94  THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 

happened  all  right.  Naturally,  the  machine  was  deeply  grieved 
and  somehow  I  felt  as  if  I  owed  it  an  apology.  Now  I  feel  just 
as  much  a  novice  in  attempting  to  address  the  Class  tonight,  so 
I  think  you  ought  to  deal  very  charitably  with  me. 

A  good  many  years  ago  when  I  first  became  engaged  to  my  wife, 
she  asked  me  if  I  would  not  go  with  her  and  meet  an  old  maiden 
aunt.  After  I  was  duly  presented  to  the  aunt,  the  very  first  thing 
she  wanted  to  know  was  what  I  did  for  a  living.  I  explained  to 
her  that  I  was  an  honest  producer  of  cattle  and  hogs.  She  was 
evidently  not  very  much  impressed,  because  the  only  remark  she 
made  was,  "Well,  anyway,  that  is  better  than  nothing."  I  have 
always  tried  to  at  least  live  up  to  that  standard. 

You  know  I  am  supposed  to  be  substituting  for  Billy  Kent 
tonight,  but  filling  his  place  is  simply  out  of  the  question,  because 
there  is  only  one  Billy  Kent.  Apropos  of  which  I  am  going  to 
change  one  of  Kipling's  rhymes  so  that  it  will  read: 

There  was  never  a  Kent  like  Billy,  not  since  the  world  began, 
For  Billy  talks  with  ex-Presidents  as  you  would  talk  with  a  man. 

Fred  Chase  suggested  for  me  a  nice  little  five-minute  chat  (so 
characteristic  of  Fred)  about  the  Middle  West,  but  I  am  not  going 
to  talk  to  you  much  about  the  Middle  West.  You  have  been  hear- 
ing very  loud  noises  from  the  convention  at  Chicago  this  week, 
and  they  are  likely  to  grow  louder  every  day.  Possibly  some  of 
you  don't  like  the  tune,  so  I  will  just  dwell  long  enough  to  say 
that  the  Middle  West  is  rapidly  coming  into  its  own.  It  will  con- 
tinue to  grow  in  relative  importance  in  years  to  come.  The  strength 
of  the  nation  lies  here,  and  Yale  can  make  out  of  our  western  boys 
just  the  kind  of  material  the  nation  needs  most.  Unfortunately, 
Yale  has  not  been  getting  anywhere  near  her  proper  proportion 
of  this  material,  simply  because  she  has  been  too  conservative  about 
reaching  out  for  the  high  school  boys  of  the  Middle  West.  She 
really  needs  them  and  they  need  her,  and  for  the  good  of  all  the 
time  must  soon  come  when  Yale  with  her  entrance  requirements  will 
meet  halfway  the  fine  high  schools  of  the  Middle  West,  and  that 
too  without  having  to  lower  her  standard  of  admission. 

But  let's  get  back  to  '87.  It's  a  far  cry  from  Class  Day  twenty- 
five  years  ago  to  the  present  time.  We  have  now  reached  a  white 


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milestone  in  our  life's  course.  We  shall  soon  be  hunting  the  shady 
places  and  looking  for  the  light  end  of  the  job.  We  are,  as  it  were, 
on  a  hilltop  where  it  is  not  only  our  right  but  our  duty  to  take  a 
long  look  backward,  as  well  as  a  long  look  ahead.  Looking  back- 
ward, we  haven't  any  apologies  to  make  for  the  past,  as  the  title 
of  my  toast  might  imply.  To  be  sure,  we  haven't  furnished  the 
country  with  any  presidents,  that  is,  not  yet,  but  we  have  done 
our  fair  share  in  the  fields  of  politics,  science  and  literature. 

I  forget,  boys,  what  comes  next,  but  it  is  very  important,  so 
with  your  permission  I  will  just  look  at  my  notes  to  see  what 
ought  to  come  next.  It  is  not  on  my  cuff,  anyhow. 

Oh,  yes,  we  were  talking  about  looking  backward.  On  the  whole 
we  have  done  our  share  of  work  for  the  common  good,  for  the 
things  that  are  best  worth  while  in  the  communities  where  we  live 
and  in  the  life  of  the  nation.  That's  what  counts.  There  are  a 
lot  of  us,  perhaps  the  majority,  who  have  had  to  work  like  Trojans 
to  make  a  living,  and  haven't  had  the  time  or  strength  to  live  up  to 
our  high  ideals.  Looking  forward,  no  doubt  part  of  us  will  be 
compelled  to  keep  right  on  hustling  to  the  end  of  the  chapter,  just 
to  keep  things  going.  That's  one  of  the  hardest  things  about  life, 
but  I  imagine  there  are  few  of  us  who,  during  the  next  twenty 
years,  will  care  to  pile  up  money  just  for  money's  sake.  We  are 
now  at  that  stage  of  the  game  where  we  ought  to  be  interested  not 
so  much  in  ourselves  as  in  the  other  fellow,  and  it  really  doesn't 
make  very  much  difference  whether  the  other  fellow  is  a  friend, 
the  community  in  which  we  live,  or  the  nation  at  large.  The  main 
thing  is  that  it  shall  be  the  other  fellow.  It  seems  to  me  that  we 
ought  to  count  ourselves  lucky  to  be  living  in  the  midst  of  a  great 
moral  awakening  in  our  country.  There  is  a  struggle  all  around 
us,  the  altruistic  spirit  is  abroad,  and  fortunate  indeed  are  those 
of  us  who  in  the  years  to  come  can  take  an  active  part  in  the 
campaign  for  justice  and  fair  play. 

Now,  fellows,  I  wish  I  might  talk  to  you  right  out  of  my  heart. 
It  is  mighty  hard  for  anyone  to  do  that,  and  especially  hard  for 
me.  Somehow  I  feel  differently  toward  this  reunion  than  I  did 
the  others.  I  guess  we  all  do.  Those  were  full  of  youth  and  joy 
and  gladness.  To  be  sure,  those  elements  are  all  present  in  this 
reunion,  except  possibly  the  youth,  but  there  is  also  something 
rather  sad  about  this  one  that  was  not  present  before.  The  sadness 


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and  the  gladness  are  so  mixed  up  that  I  actually  don't  know 
whether  to  laugh  or  cry.  So  far  in  life's  journey  we  have  traveled 
along  the  road,  while  not  together,  at  least  within  hailing  distance 
of  each  other,  but  when  we  part  this  time  there  will  be  a  tendency 
to  scatter  and  each  man  take  his  own  path  regardless  of  the  others. 
In  this  respect  men  are  a  good  deal  like  wild  animals.  Isolation 
seems  to  be  one  of  the  penalties  of  old  age,  but  the  thought  of  it 
hurts,  and  it  ought  not  to  be  so.  I  hope  that  in  our  Class  it  won't 
and  that  every  man  here  will  make  a  fight  to  hold  on  to  his  youth 
by  keeping  alive  and  fresh  his  interest  in  and  love  for  the  Class. 
It  is  one  of  my  chief  joys  to  know  that  while  all  the  rest  of  the 
world  is  growing  old,  the  members  of  '87  will  always  seem  like 
boys  to  me.  The  heart  is  really  the  seat  of  youth,  and  if  a  man 
is  young  in  spirit,  well,  anyhow,  what  do  the  years  matter?  There 
is  only  one  way  to  keep  the  heart  young  and  that  is  to  fill  it  with 
love. 

I  thank  you. 

[The  remarks  of  the  Toastmaster  in  introducing  the  next  speaker 
have  been  censored  (if  not  censured)  by  the  editor.  The  gist  of 
those  remarks  being  to  call  attention  to  the  Class  Secretary,  he 
responded  somewhat  as  follows:] 

George  E.  Hill: 

Mr.  Toastmaster  and  fellows:  No  man  finds  himself  in  the 
position  which  I  occupy  tonight  without  wondering  for  a  moment, 
at  least,  why  he  happened  to  be  picked  to  be  "butchered  to  make 
a  Roman  holiday."  It  is  rare,  however,  that  the  speaker  and  his 
audience  are  as  unanimous  as  you  and  I  are  tonight,  that  it  ought 
not  to  have  been  done.  It  does  not  seem  that  the  time  has  come 
for  me  again  to  be  the  "goat,"  but  after  all,  the  secretary  of  a 
college  class  rather  gets  used  to  it.  I  have  thought  many  times 
that  the  man  who  wrote  that  popular  song  which  has  been  going 
the  rounds  of  late  must  have  had  in  mind  a  class  secretary  when  he 
wrote  it,  for  the  chorus  runs,  as  I  remember,  "Let  George  do  it, 
let  George  do  it." 

I  suppose  the  committee  in  charge  of  this  function  (of  which 
committee  I  am  not  even  an  ex-officio  member)  when  they  assigned 
to  me  the  toast  of  "Eighty-seven  in  Retrospect"  had  some  serious 


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97 


Kirk  ham  and  Brownson 


thought  in  mind,  though  what  it  was  I  am  just  now  unable  to  detect, 
for,  of  course,  I  cannot  talk  seriously  tonight  of  '87  in  retrospect. 
I  wish  I  might  do  so,  "by  the  book,"  as  it  were;  talk  to  you  from 
the  unwritten  records  of  '87,  of  those  sidelights  upon  character  and 
quality  in  individuals  of  which  I  have  knowledge  because  I  am 
Secretary,  but  many  of  which  are  inviolable  confidences.  If  I 
could  talk  to  you  of  some  of  our  men  who  have  fought  the  good 
fight  and  won,  of  some  who  have  fought  equally  well  and  have  not, 
I  could  make  it  clear  to  you  why  it  is  that  a  class  secretary  comes 
to  love  his  Class  as  no  other  man  does  or  can. 

But  this  I  cannot  do  and  can  only  refer  to  some  few  of  those 
incidents  in  lighter  vein  which  leave  you  at  liberty  to  deem  them 
apocryphal  or  not  as  suits  the  pleasure  of  the  individual. 


98  THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 

Now  there  is  our  toastmaster — sometimes  called  the  contributing 
editor  of  the  Alumni  Weekly.  I  have  often  wondered  why  it  was 
that  of  all  men  in  this  Class,  he  alone  had  the  privilege  of  roasting 
any  and  every  fellow  and  no  fellow  had  the  privilege  of  roasting 
him. 

The  Toastmaster: 

I  am  a  roaster,  myself. 

Mr.  Hill: 

Indeed  you  are,  and  I've  got  something  on  you.  You  may  not 
believe  it,  but  I  have.  I  may  be  getting  into  trouble  by  relating 
it,  but  I  am  going  to  run  the  risk.  There  is  always  someone  on  an 
occasion  like  this  who  is  willing  to  rush  in  where  angels  fear  to 
tread;  and  that  is  exactly  what  one  does  who  undertakes  to  tackle 
Billy  Phelps,  especially  where  he  has  the  last  word.  But  I  do 
want  to  tell  you  about  Billy's  speech  up  at  Horace  Taft's  school. 
You  all  know  that  school  and  many  of  you  know  of  the  Sunday 
afternoon  exercises  they  have  up  there  for  the  boys.  They  are 
gathered  together  in  the  Chapel  each  Sunday  and  someone  is  there 
to  talk  to  them,  sometimes  upon  some  religious  subject,  sometimes 
to  enforce  some  moral  lesson,  sometimes  upon  some  topic  of  the 
times.  But  it  is  always  a  serious  occasion  appropriate  to  the  day. 

Not  long  ago,  Billy  was  the  speaker  on  one  of  those  occasions, 
and  his  subject  was  "The  Fair  Game";  and  he  talked  to  them,  as 
Billy  alone  can,  on  playing  the  game  fair.  He  talked  to  them  of 
being  fair  in  their  studies,  fair  in  their  sports,  fair  to  their  parents, 
their  teachers,  their  fellows.  For  a  half  hour  he  swayed  and 
charmed  those  little  chaps,  with  his  wisdom,  his  wit  and  his  per- 
suasiveness, always  harking  back  to  his  text,  "The  Fair  Game." 
Then  he  closed  with  this  brilliant  peroration:  "And  so,  boys,"  he 
said,  "to  sum  it  all  up,  play  the  game  fair,  play  the  game  of  life  fair, 
so  that  when  the  lights  are  turned  low,  the  chairs  are  set  back 
against  the  wall  and  the  cards  and  chips  are  put  away,  you  may 
hear  the  welcome  words,  'Well  done,  good  and  faithful  servant.'  " 

It  is  a  curious  kind  of  a  job,  this  job  of  being  Class  Secretary. 
I  wish  I  could  tell  you  a  lot  of  things  about  it,  but  I  will  just  give 
you  a  sample. 


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[At  this  point  the  proceedings  were  interrupted  by  the  arrival 
in  the  dining-room  of  the  Class  of  '87  Sheff.] 

The  Toastmaster  (after  '87  S.  had  retired) : 

Now  we  will  come  to  order  again.  We  are  not  going  to  let  the 
Class  Secretary  off  with  such  a  short  speech.  The  Class  Secretary 
has  the  floor.  He  is  going  to  talk  longer  and  talk  right  out. 

Mr.  Hill: 

I  don't  know  just  "where  I  was  at"  when  this  interruption 
occurred. 

The  Toastmaster: 

You  were  engaged  in  roasting  me  at  that  time.  Go  on  with  your 
nefarious  work. 

Mr.  Hill: 

It  seems  to  me  that  I  was  speaking  about  some  of  the  things 
which  happen  to  a  class  secretary.  Some  of  the  things  which  are 
put  up  to  him  to  do  strike  him  as  remarkable  until  he  really  under- 
stands the  purpose  back  of  them.  For  instance,  there's  the  letter 
I  had  a  few  days  ago  from  Billy  Hand,  making  requisition  to 
supply  his  needs  for  this  reunion.  He  wanted  so  many  tickets  for 
the  outdoor  play,  so  many  for  the  game,  etc.,  and  a  bedroom  which 
must  have  either  an  iron  or  a  brass  bedstead.  Now  just  why  he 
must  have  an  iron  or  brass  bedstead  was  more  than  I  could  fathom, 
until  I  learned  the  reason  from  him.  It  seems  a  wooden  bedstead 
has  a  solid  footboard,  while  the  footboard  of  an  iron  or  brass 
bedstead,  being  open,  enabled  him  to  stick  his  feet  through  and  so 
extend  his  six  feet  four  at  full  length. 

A  number  of  years  ago  I  was  on  the  Pacific  coast  and  ran  into 
Benjie  Romaine  down  at  Los  Angeles.  We  traveled  along  leisurely 
up  the  coast  toward  San  Francisco,  and  stopped  one  day  at  one 
of  those  magnificent  seashore  hostelries  at  Santa  Barbara — one 
of  those  places  where  in  the  season  they  take  your  money  away 
from  you  in  bunches.  We  went  to  our  rooms  on  our  arrival  and 
had  been  there  about  fifteen  minutes  when  I  heard  a  great  racket 
out  in  the  corridor.  I  looked  out  the  door  and  saw  Benjie  with 


100  THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 

his  grip  in  one  hand  and  his  coat,  collar  and  necktie  in  the  other, 
dashing  down  the  hall  into  the  office.  I  followed  and  reached  the 
office  just  in  time  to  hear  him  say  to  the  clerk:  "What  kind  of  a 
house  is  this  ?  Give  me  a  bill  and  let  me  get  out  of  this  place !" 
"Why,  what's  the  matter?"  said  the  clerk.  "Figure  it  up,  figure 
it  up,"  said  Benjie,  "I've  been  up  there  in  that  room  just  fifteen 
minutes  and  just  discovered  the  notice  on  the  door  saying  that 
the  price  of  the  room  is  twenty-four  dollars  a  day."  "Oh,  if  that's 
all,"  said  the  clerk,  "you  can  go  back  and  finish  dressing.  That's 
the  price  in  the  season.  Just  now  it's  out  of  season,  and  we  are 
charging  you  three  fifty  per  day  with  meals." 

Benjie  went  back  and  finished  his  bath. 

On  that  same  trip,  when  I  reached  San  Francisco,  a  friend  of 
mine  took  me  around  to  one  of  the  clubs  of  which  Sam  Knight  is 
a  member,  and  there  I  heard  of  an  experience  of  Sam's  which 
was  then  fresh  in  the  minds  of  San  Franciscan  society.  It  appears 
from  the  faithful  narrative  of  an  eyewitness  that  Sam  was  out  near 
the  Cliff  House,  sitting  on  the  beach,  gazing  out  across  the  surf, 
absorbed  in  thought.  Suddenly  he  realized  that  seated  near  him 
was  an  attractive  young  lady,  alone,  as  he  was.  A  second  glance 
showed  she  was  extremely  pretty,  and  that  well-known  courtesy 
of  Sam's  prompted  the  thought  that  it  was  his  duty — and  his 
pleasure  as  well — to  enter  into  conversation.  Just  how  to  open 
the  conversation  he  did  not  know.  He  noticed,  however,  that  she 
was  dressed  in  some  sort  of  tennis  or  golf  suit.  So  he  turned 
pleasantly  to  her  and  inquired,  "Are  you  fond  of  outdoor  sports?" 
"Oh,"  she  replied,  "if  they  are  not  too  old.  Are  you  one?" 

There  has  been  a  good  deal  said  about  our  congressman  from 
California.  I  am  sorry  he  has  gone  to  Chicago.  I  am  sorry  for 
several  reasons. 

You  know  above  all  things,  Billy  Kent  is  a  friend  of  the  People, 
the  dear  People.  There  is  nothing  so  dear  to  Billy  as  the  People, 
and  the  People  must  rule.  Billy  had  not  been  long  in  Congress 
when  there  was  a  bill  before  the  House  for  the  admission  of  one 
of  the  territories  as  a  state.  The  constitution  had  been  framed  and 
adopted  and  was  before  Congress  for  ratification  and  approval. 
One  day  Bill  came  into  the  House  in  the  midst  of  debate  on  this 
bill.  They  were  discussing  a  clause  of  the  constitution  which  con- 
tained the  proposed  motto  of  the  new  state.  The  motto  was, 


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101 


ARRIVAL   OF  THE   TUTTLES 


"Under  God  the  People  Rule."  Billy  listened  to  the  discussion 
for  a  moment,,  read  over  the  text  of  the  motto,,  and  there  instantly 
roused  in  him  his  lifelong  desire  to  do  something  for  the  people. 
"Mr.  Speaker,"  he  shouted,  "I  move  to  amend  the  proposed  motto, 
'Under  God  the  People  Rule,'  by  striking  out  the  word  'under' 
and  substituting  therefor  the  word  'by.'  ' 

Now,  fellows,  it  is  too  late  for  any  serious  talk  from  me.  These 
anecdotes  I  have  given  you  for  what  they  may  be  worth.  But 
there  is  one  serious  thought  I  would  suggest,  because  it  appeals  to 
me  more  strongly  each  year.  It  is  that  the  greatest  lesson  one 
learns  here  at  Yale,  the  greatest  thing  which  comes  to  a  man  from 
the  spirit  of  a  Yale  education,  is  the  inspiration  to  service  and 
sacrifice.  All  around  us,  on  the  old  Campus  and  the  new,  on  build- 
ings of  our  own  time  and  of  today,  we  see  memorials  of  men  who 
have  brought  luster  to  their  Alma  Mater;  men  who  have  neither 


102  THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 

sought,  nor  sought  to  avoid  the  perilous  duties  and  responsibilities 
which  have  thrust  themselves  upon  them,  who,  without  ambitious 
quest  after  opportunity  have  yet  stood  ready  to  respond,  "I  will," 
to  the  call  to  service  and  to  sacrifice. 

These  memorials  bear  no  inscription  which  rings  truer  to  Yale 
teaching  and  Yale  tradition  than  that  one  over  yonder  in  the 
memorial  vestibule  which  bears  the  name  of  our  classmate,  Mike 
Meacham,  for  it  bears  no  tribute  to  him  as  a  soldier,  though 
soldier  he  was.  Upon  it  are  no  names  of  campaigns,  nothing  sug- 
gestive of  the  clash  of  arms,  of  triumph  won  or  hardships  endured, 
but  just  the  simple  words,  "In  honor  of  service  and  sacrifice."  In 
those  two  words  are  expressed  not  only  what  was  best  and  greatest 
in  Mike  Meacham,  but  as  well,  what  is  best  and  greatest  in  all 
that  Yale  gives  to  her  sons  in  education  and  tradition. 

It  has  been  my  good  fortune  and  privilege  throughout  the  twenty- 
five  years  since  we  graduated  to  be  thrown  with  Yale  graduates 
more  than  with  any  other  class  of  men.  In  professional  life  and  in 
social  life,  I  have  been  in  daily  contact  with  Yale  men;  and  the 
truth  of  the  statement  that  this  is  the  greatest  lesson  taught  here 
at  Yale  has  been  borne  in  upon  me  over  and  over  again  in  my  daily 
contact  with  Yale  men  of  all  classes. 

It  is  no  boast  for  me  to  claim  to  know  the  Class  of  '87  better 
than  any  one  of  you.  Each  of  you  knows  some  one  in  the  Class 
better  and  more  intimately  than  I  do,  but  none  of  you  know  the 
Class  as  a  whole  so  well.  It  is  inevitable  from  my  years  as  Class 
Secretary.  As  I  look  over  the  Class  as  a  whole,  it  is  not  mere 
loyalty  which  makes  me  believe  that  the  men  of  '87  are  leveling 
up  to  the  standard  set  by  the  classes  which  have  gone  before  and 
are  following  after  us.  I  believe  there  is  no  class  which,  in  the 
same  number  of  years,  has  set  a  higher  standard  in  the  matter  of 
useful  achievement  and  accomplishment. 

So  I  have  but  those  two  serious  thoughts  to  leave  with  you 
tonight  as  we  close  this  twenty-five  year  banquet — the  thought  that 
all  Yale's  teaching  and  tradition  both  in  college  and  after — for 
her  teaching  and  tradition  are  potent  throughout  our  lives — puts 
the  emphasis  on  those  two  words,  "service  and  sacrifice" ;  and  that 
our  good  old  Class,  just  now  passing  the  meridian,  is  holding  the 
banner  which  bears  these  words  up  to  the  level  which  is  expected 
of  her. 


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[At  this  point,  Sam  Knight,  speaking  for  the  '87  men  living  on 
the  Pacific  coast,  briefly  referred  to  the  Exposition  to  be  held  in 
San  Francisco  in  1915,  and  to  the  desire  of  the  Calif ornian  mem- 
bers that  some  reunion  of  the  Class  should  be  held  there  at  that 
time.  A  motion  to  this  effect  was  made  and  duly  and  unanimously 
carried  with  enthusiasm.] 

The  T oastmaster : 

Scranton  is  a  red-hot  Yale  town  and  has  sent  many  good 
specimens  to  Yale.  They  all  go  back  to  Scranton  if  they  can, 
and  we  like  to  exhibit  them  as  Yale  representatives.  The  highest 
stand  man  in  the  Class,  Billy  Hand,  came  to  us  from  Scranton; 
so  did  dear  old  Stuffy;  so  did  Jim  Archbald.  Jim  was  president 
of  the  baseball  association  in  the  good  days  when  the  nine  had 
the  winning  habit;  they  got  it  from  our  Sunny  Jim,  who  has  the 
winning  smile.  Jim,  will  you  recite? 

James  Archbald,  Jr.: 

"Recite"  is  an  apt  word  in  my  case,  because  all  the  time  I  have 
been  sitting  here  waiting  to  be  called  on,  I  have  felt  as  I  used  to 
when  only  partially  prepared  for  a  recitation  in  Latin  or  Greek, 
anxious  to  be  called  up  early  in  the  game,  and  feverishly  trying 
to  read  ahead  at  sight.  When  Eddie  Burke  and  I  looked  over  the 
list  of  speakers  tonight,  we  felt  it  was  a  low  trick  on  us  and  showed 
poor  judgment  on  the  part  of  the  committee  to  place  us  after  such 
speakers  as  Fred  Hill  and  Sheffield.  I  congratulated  myself, 
however,  on  being  ahead  of  Burke.  When  I  have  to  make  a  speech 
it  is  like  that  old  but  most  apropos  of  all  stories  which  I  first  heard 
attributed  to  George  Woodward's  father,  though  it  certainly  did 
not  apply  to  him.  I  am  like  the  man  who  had  to  ride  with  his 
mother-in-law  at  his  wife's  funeral,  and  it  "spoiled  the  whole  blamed 
thing  for  him."  So  here  I  was,  anxious  to  get  my  speech  off  my 
mind,  and  then  there  came  in  ahead  of  me  the  pictures  of  ourselves, 
which  we  all  enjoyed,  after  that  the  presentation  of  the  cups,  and 
when  my  turn  at  last  came,  Billy  overlooked  me,  as  I  wish  you  had 
let  him  do  entirely. 

When  Fred  Chase  wrote  me  in  a  very  tentative  way  that  the 
committee  might  want  me  to  make  a  few  well-chosen  remarks  at 


106  THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 

reading,  and  if  there  were  more  like  it,  I  would  subscribe  for  the 
Congressional  Record.  Let  me  read  you  some  poetry  from  it. 
Billy  does  not  imply  that  he  wrote  it,  but  he  might  have. 

I  read  these  tariff  speeches  o'er, 

The  more  I  read  of  them  the  more 

I  do  not  know,  but  then  I  can 

Rely  upon  our  Congressman. 

Upon  the  very  slightest  hint 

He  puts  a  red-hot  speech  in  print 

And  when  he  prints  that  speech,  you  see, 

He  has  it  mailed  out  here  to  me- 

Mac  makes  it  very  clear  just  how 
If  I  pay  more  than  I  do  now 
For  socks  and  gloves  and  baby's  dress 
While  I  pay  more  they  cost  me  less. 
And  then  he  shows  me  where  I  lose 
By  paying  somewhat  less  for  shoes, 
For  though  I  pay  less  than  before, 
My  shoes,  they  really  cost  me  more. 

He  makes  it  very  clear  to  me 
That  what  I  lose  I  gain,  you  see; 
And  on  such  things  as  clothes  and  shoes 
I  seem  to  gain  but  really  lose. 
Thus,  if  I  buy  my  socks  too  low, 
They'll  still  be  higher — Dune  says  so — 
And  shoes  I  thought  were  high  last  fall 
Were  really  low  shoes  after  all. 

Mac  says  if  I  pay  less  for  shoes 
Or  hats,  the  maker  has  to  lose. 
And  if  he  loses,  then,  you  see, 
He  charges  up  the  loss  to  me. 
Now,  when  I  have  to  pay  him  more, 
He  reckons  profits  to  his  store, 
And  Duncan  finds  a  share  for  me 
In  all  of  this  prosperity. 

The  speeches  shed  a  radiant  light 

Upon  the  theme  and  make  it  bright; 

I  merely  read  them  o'er  and  o'er 

To  find  more's  less  and  less  is  more. 

In  buying  hat,  or  coat,  or  vest, 

Dear's  cheap,  and  cheap  is  dear,  at  best; 

High's  low,  low's  high,  far's  near,  near's  far, 

White's  black,  black's  white — and  there  you  are. 


THE  STORY  OF  THE  REUNION  107 

We  live  in  topsy-turvy  land 

When  McKinley  waves  his  magic  wand. 

As  to  Billy  Phelps,  have  you  read  the  "Heart  of  Peter  Burn- 
ham,"  by  Ralph  Paine?  It  is  poorly  written  and  its  few  refer- 
ences to  our  popular  professor  of  English  literature  do  not  do 
justice  to  what  we  have  heard  as  to  his  real  charm  for  the  under- 
graduates and  the  ladies,  as  with  the  latter  in  this  story  he  only 
comes  in  a  poor  second  to  the  hero. 

Naturally,  in  thinking  of  our  achievers,  my  mind  runs  on  our 
literary  men,  perhaps  because  we  value  most  success  in  other  lines 
than  our  own,  and  that  leads  me  to  speak  of  Billy  Mac  and  his 
work.  Do  you  know  that  wherever  he  has  been  stationed,  in  Beth- 
lehem, Allentown,  and  now  in  Reading,  he  not  only  maintains  a 
newspaper  of  a  high  tone  such  as  is  rarely,  if  ever,  met  with,  but 
has  done  a  most  efficient  work  for  boys,  especially  effective  because 
he  absolutely  effaces  himself  in  it,  and  leads  the  boys  to  work  out 
their  own  physical,  mental,  moral  and  religious  salvation?  This 
is  his  daily  as  well  as  his  life-work,  and  you  cannot  draw  him  from 
it  at  any  hour  it  may  need  him.  I  know,  for  I  have  often  tried. 

It  seems  to  me  our  literary  men  were  all  born,  not  made  or  even 
trained  by  Yale,  which  is  perhaps  why  we  are  long  in  this  respect 
in  quality,  rather  than  quantity.  Billy  Kent,  Billy  Phelps  and 
Fred  Hill,  did  they  get  much  of  their  training  in  those  lines  from 
Yale?  Not  so  we  knew  it  at  the  time.  They  made  themselves.  I 
remember  when  Billy  Phelps  first  burst  on  us  at  a  Yale  dinner  in 
New  York,  we  did  not  know  what  to  make  of  him.  I  am  not  sure 
we  do  yet. 

Seriously,  though,  I  have  always  felt  defrauded  of  two  things  in 
my  college  course,  which  I  did  not  miss  then — compulsory  literary 
training  and  compulsory  gymnastic  work.  I  have  appreciated  the 
latter  more  in  the  last  few  years,  since  I  have  been  under  a  com- 
petent gym  instructor  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  home.  It  was  rather 
a  coincidence,  that  being  asked  a  few  months  ago  to  present  the 
prizes  at  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  athletic  meet,  I  spoke  of  these  lacks  in  my 
training,  and  after  the  meet,  mentioned  to  someone  the  fact  that 
I  only  took  three  books  out  of  the  library  in  all  my  college  course, 
and  those  were  used  to  furnish  material  for  the  only  three  compo- 
sitions I  was  compelled  to  write.  The  coincidence  lies  in  the  fact 


108  THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 

that  the  next  day  I  received  the  Alumni  Weekly  of  March  29,  1912, 
in  which  Billy  Phelps  descanted  on  the  lack  of  appreciation  of 
our  library  opportunities  among  his  benighted  classmates.  I  sup- 
pose now  the  same  comparison  may  be  made  in  this  respect  as  was 
made  by  my  brother  in  '96,  when  being  asked  to  speak  for  Yale 
at  a  meeting  on  the  Day  of  Prayer  for  Colleges,  I  asked  him  for 
some  information  as  to  the  religious  atmosphere  at  Yale,  and  he 
said,  "Depict  it  as  different  from  what  it  was  in  your  day  as  you 
can."  From  what  I  knew  of  conditions  at  the  time  and  remem- 
bered of  those  of  my  day,  I  thought  he  was  right.  However,  if 
we  weren't  much  on  faith,  we  kept  our  end  up  on  works,  and  what 
we  lacked  in  form  we  made  up  in  matter,  without  attempting  to 
splurge.  We  have  made  no  large  gifts  to  the  Alumni  Fund,  but  we 
keep  plugging  away  each  year,  and  our  total  is,  I  think,  greater 
than  any  class  not  having  made  a  special  reunion  contribution. 

If,  however,  I  feel  the  lack  of  a  training  in  certain  lines,  as 
probably  most  of  you  do,  I  got  my  full  money's  worth  in  others. 
Yale  was  perhaps  a  hard  school  in  some  respects,  but  its  competi- 
tion fits  one  well  for  the  struggle  of  life.  In  my  own  case,  I  got  a 
splendid  business  training  here,  so  much  so  that  in  a  business  way 
I  had  as  much  confidence  in  myself  when  I  graduated  as  I  have 
now,  which  perhaps  isn't  saying  much.  I  feel  no  more  mature  now 
than  I  did  then,  though  when  I  look  in  my  glass  and  at  my  grad- 
uating picture,  I  realize  that  I  look  more  mature,  even  with  my 
hat  on.  This  training  was  extra-curriculum,  but  from  the  curric- 
ulum those  of  us  who  studied  more  or  less,  and  most  of  us  did 
more,  rather  than  less,  got  a  training  in  systematic  and  persistent 
hard  work  that  has  stood  us  in  good  stead,  I  am  sure.  Anyway, 
it  has  me. 

I  remember  some  years  ago,  Mr.  Simms,  superintendent  of  motive 
power  for  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  said  he  would  rather  have  a 
man  who  had  the  training  in  hard  work  denoted  by  the  mastery  of 
some  subject  that  did  not  appeal  to  him,  as  for  instance  a  Greek 
Lexicon,  than  one  who  had  made  a  brilliant  success  in  an  interest- 
ing optional,  and  that  is  why  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa  key  is  generally 
recognized  as  a  strong  recommendation  in  an  applicant  for  work. 
You  know  he  worked  once  and  probably  will  again.  If  I  remember 
rightly,  Professor  Perrin  of  Yale  said,  "It  is  a  question  whether 
instead  of  finding  out  what  a  boy  likes  and  letting  him  study  it,  it 


THE  STORY  OF  THE  REUNION  109 

is  not  better  to  find  out  what  he  does  not  like  and  make  him  study 
that." 

Moreover,,  if  Yale  did  not  teach  us  everything,  it  taught  us  how 
to  go  after  what  we  needed  to  know,  and  incidentally  inculcated  a 
confidence  in  ourselves  based  on  the  principle  which  I  believe 
generally  holds  good,  that  a  man  can  do  anything  if  he  brings  to 
it  reasonable  intelligence  and  works  hard.  While  I  am  called  a 
"mining  engineer,"  I  always  say  it  is  by  trade  and  not  by  profes- 
sion; and  with  no  technical  training  whatever,  I  have  found  out 
that  the  best  way  to  learn  to  do  things  is  by  doing  them.  More- 
over, a  classical  education  and  the  old  system  of  recitations  ought 
to  enable  us  to  dress  up  what  knowledge  and  ideas  we  have,  so  as 
to  make  the  most  of  them,  and  I  think  we  have  all  found  out  that 
if  we  have  anything  to  say,  Yale  has  taught  us  to  say  it,  and 
perhaps  also  the  corollary  of  this  proposition,  which  may  be  quite 
as  valuable  from  the  standpoint  of  others,  when  we  have  nothing 
to  say,  not  to  say  it.  If  I  have  seemed  not  to  have  learned  or  at 
least  applied  this  last,  you  must  blame  the  committee  who  forced 
me  on  you. 

We  also  know  now  the  truth  of  Tiggy's  expression,  quoted  before, 
which  I  translate  into,  "Mean  what  you  say  and  say  it  clearly," 
without  which  there  can  be  no  convincing  eloquence  and  no  con- 
vincing literature. 

In  conclusion,,  I  can  say  with  absolute  sincerity,  as  I  hope  you  all 
can,  that  Yale  taught  me  nothing  I  needed  to  unlearn. 


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ALUMNI  WEEKLY  ACCOUNT  OF 
REUNION 

Within  a  very  few  years,  it  has  become  an  "old  and  established 
tradition"  that  the  25th  reunion — the  writer  does  not  know  the 
Latin  jargon  for  it — should  be  held  at  the  Thacher  house  on  Crown 
Street.  A  small  squad  of  the  faithful  were  there  on  Friday:  every 
train  on  Saturday,  Sunday  and  Monday  brought  in  '87  men,,  easily 
distinguished  from  other  Yale  graduates  by  their  intellectual  cast 
of  countenance  and  manly  beauty  of  frame.  Other  classes  are 
forced  to  wear  a  uniform:  but  with  '87,  no  outward  sign  or  seal  has 
ever  been  necessary.  The  Sabbath  rain  was  a  good  thing:  the  Class 
stuck  to  the  house  and  the  tent,  and  the  Class  stuck  together. 
Reminiscence  was  the  watchword,  and  in  the  gloaming  sweet 
melodies  purled  aloft.  There  was  no  one  there  who  could  not  sing 
the  old  songs,  and  no  one  who  was  afraid  to  try.  The  highly 
expensive  cigars  furnished  by  the  Class  Committee  were  so  keenly 
appreciated  that  '87  was  a  pillar  of  cloud  by  day,  and  a  ball  of  fire 
by  night.  The  Class  ate  all  their  meals  together,  and  it  seemed  as 
if  they  were  back  at  the  old  eating  joints,  with  quips  that  set  the 
table  in  a  roar.  Monday  noon  the  entire  Class,  accompanied  by 
their  woman-kind  and  olive  plants,  took  lunch  at  the  Country  Club. 


112  THE  QUARTER-CENTURY  REUNION 

All  present  were  members  of  '87,  except  one  who  was  88.  This 
was  Bill  Thacher's  mother,  eighty-eight  years  of  age,  sparkling  like 
a  diamond  in  the  hands  of  the  skillful  lapidary,  Time.  The  Class 
were  highly  honored  by  the  presence  of  this  wonderful  woman.  And 
'87  is  rich  in  great  mothers  of  men!  Bob  Maxwell's  mother,  calm, 
sweet  and  tranquil  as  the  evening  light,  has  reached  the  same  age  as 
Mrs.  Thacher.  On  Sunday  and  on  Tuesday,  the  Class  had  the 
opportunity  of  greeting  that  Saint  of  '87,  Mrs.  Virginia  Curtis,  who 


Seymour,  Leeds,  Sheffield,  Rogers 

has  perpetuated  the  memory  of  her  two  sons  by  splendid  gifts  to 
the  College. 

Two  wives  of  '87  entertained  the  Class  during  the  reunion  period. 
Mrs.  Robert  Corwin  gave  a  reception  at  her  home  on  Sunday  after- 
noon, when  the  men  and  women  came  early  and  stayed  late.  After 
the  ball  game  on  Tuesday,  Mrs.  William  Lyon  Phelps  gave  a  supper 
to  the  women  and  children  at  her  home,  while  the  men  had  the 
reunion  dinner  at  the  Lawn  Club. 

Tuesday  morning  Jim  Sheffield  presided  at  the  Alumni  Meeting 


ALUMNI  WEEKLY  ACCOUNT  118 

in  Battell,  making  a  speech  that  gave  '87  renewed  cause  for  pride 
in  their  representative.  On  the  way  out  to  the  Field,  special  trolleys 
carried  the  men,  women  and  children,  and  the  band  of  music.  A 
halt  was  made  on  Chapel  Street ;  all  dismounted  and  paid  homage  to 
Tom  Curtis'  little  daughter,  who  waved  the  winning  colors.  After 
the  game,  the  Class  marched  to  the  homes  of  Baldy  Wright,  Andy 
Phillips,  Timothy  Dwight  and  Arthur  Hadley.  Then  came  the 
excellent  dinner  at  the  Lawn  Club.  Phelps  was  toastmaster,  and 
speeches  were  made  until  three  in  the  morning  by  F.  Hill,  Sheffield, 
Archbald,  Burke,  G.  Hill  and  Hartridge.  A  long-distance  cup 
was  given  to  Phelps,  and  another  cup  to  Keeler,  to  hold  in  trust  for 
his  granddaughter,  as  he  is  the  first  grandfather  in  the  Class.  The 
engagement  was  announced  of  his  granddaughter  to  Tuney  Play- 
ford,  the  announcement  arousing  wild  enthusiasm.  A  feature  of  the 
dinner  was  the  stereopticon  exhibition  of  the  old  days.  A  distinct 
addition  to  the  pleasure  of  the  dinner  was  a  visit  from  '87  S.;  the 
Sheff  and  Academic  men  fraternized  and  sang  songs  in  spiritual 
harmony. 

It  is  safe  to  say  that  every  member  of  the  Class  felt  that  the 
25th  was  the  most  successful  reunion  ever  held  by  this  or  any 
other  collection  of  human  beings. 

Besides  the  reunion  gift  of  the  Class  to  the  Alumni  Fund,  and 
the  Curtis  Scholarship  from  Mrs.  Curtis,  a  member  of  the  Class 
gave  two  memorial  suites  for  '87  to  Wright  Hall. 


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SHEFFIELD'S  SPEECH  AT  THE  ALUMNI 
MEETING 

Sons  of  Mother  Yale:  This  is  a  holy  week  at  Yale.  This  is  a 
family  gathering  to  discuss  strictly  family  affairs.  Like  dutiful 
sons  we  gather  about  the  head  of  the  house,  the  worthy  apostolic 
successor  of  our  great-great-grandfather,  Saint  Eli,  and  assure  him 
that  no  matter  what  happens  today  in  Chicago  our  Yale  President 
is  sure  of  a  square  deal,  without  fear  that  it  will  harm  the  republic 
of  letters  of  which  he  is  head,  that  his  administration  is  always 
endorsed,  for  he  is  always  renominated  and  reflected  for  as  many 
consecutive  third  terms  as  he  can  be  induced  to  accept. 

When  the  Class  of  '87  left  the  Old  Yale,  its  customs  and  its  tradi- 
tions, we  loved  it.  We  were  a  part  of  it,  it  of  us.  We  felt  its 
inspiring  music  in  our  souls  even  though  the  melody  had  no  fitting 
words.  It  was  the  soul  of  Yale,  the  spirit  breathed  into  the  College 
by  our  founders  and  preserved  by  our  fathers;  but  that  was  our 
Yale.  It  was  the  Yale  of  our  day,  which  was  yesterday,  and  this  is 
the  Yale  of  today,  and  the  Yale  of  tomorrow  is  fast  coming.  In 
place  of  the  old  Yale  spirit  there  is  coming  over  this  community  of 
Yale  men  a  true  university  spirit. 

Time  was  when  Yale  was  a  great  academic  institution ;  the  time  is 
when  Yale  is  a  great  academic  institution  and  a  great  scientific 
institution.  The  time  was  when  the  classics  ruled  higher  education ; 
the  time  is  when  the  classics  and  science  rule  higher  education 
together.  The  time  was  when  the  President  of  Yale  was  a  Con- 
gregational clergyman;  the  time  is  come  when  the  President  of  Yale 
is  a  cultivated  scholarly  gentleman  and  a  brilliant  administrator  and 
man  of  affairs.  The  time  was  when  the  life  members  of  the  Cor- 
poration were  men  of  one  church ;  the  time  is  when  the  life  members 
of  the  Corporation  are  chosen  not  for  their  profession  or  their  creed, 
but  simply  for  their  eminence  and  loyalty  to  Yale.  And  if  I 
mistake  not  this  new  Yale  spirit,  the  time  will  shortly  come  when 
more  than  six  members  of  the  Corporation  are  chosen  by  the 
graduates  of  the  country,  thus  proving  that  in  the  affairs  of  Yale 
the  people  rule. 


SHEFFIELD'S  SPEECH  AT  ALUMNI  MEETING    119 

Now  all  of  these  profound  changes  have  come  about — and  many 
others  that  I  have  not  mentioned — without  the  loss  of  a  single  Yale 
tradition  worth  preserving.  Corresponding  changes  have  taken 
place  in  the  relations  of  the  undergraduate  departments.  The  growth 
in  numbers  and  influence  of  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  has 
caused  to  be  extended  to  the  Sheffield  men  the  right  hand  of  college 
fellowship  into  a  rightly  deserved  and  larger  share  of  the  under- 
graduate activities,  and  this  is  as  it  should  be. 

Looking  over  the  twenty-five  years  of  our  growth,  we  are  inclined 
to  believe  that  there  are  few  customs  of  undergraduate  life  which 
the  undergraduate  himself  cannot  safely  be  trusted  to  change.  It 
is  a  wonderful  Yale,  a  republic  of  thirty-five  hundred  young  men, 
ruled  not  by  laws  but  by  customs,  maintaining  standards  higher 
than  faculty  edicts  by  the  mere  force  of  college  opinion.  If  we 
older  men  tried  with  half  their  zeal  to  make  the  world  in  which  we 
live  as  straight  and  fair  and  clean  as  these  young  fellows  have 
made  theirs,  then  the  world  would  be  a  far  sweeter  place  to  live 
in,  and  the  problems  of  the  twentieth  century  would  be  much 
nearer  solution. 

Boys  come  here  from  every  state  and  from  every  walk  in  life 
for  their  four  years.  They  meet  and  they  work  together,  and  then 
they  go  out,  back  to  their  several  communities,  determined  as  never 
before  to  carry  with  them  the  Yale  standard  of  courage  and  honor, 
the  Yale  idea  of  what  is  fair  and  manly.  We  must  send  these  boys 
out  with  the  right  knowledge  today  if  we  intend  to  serve  notice  on 
the  men  and  women  of  our  country  that  evolution  shall  not  be 
revolution  and  government  by  tumult  shall  not  be  substituted  for 
government  by  law.  If  we  do  that  we  need  not  fear  but  that  the 
old  Yale  spirit  still  lives  and  that  the  new  Yale  spirit  is  but  another 
manifestation  of  it. 


§1 


BIOGRAPHIES  AND   BIBLIOGRAPHY 


184  BIOGRAPHIES 


dent  and  counsel  of  "The  Associated  Physicians  and  Surgeons"  in 
New  York  City.  His  home  was  for  a  time  in  Passaic,  N.  J.,  but  in 
1894  he  moved  to  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  two 
years.  He  gave  up  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  1898,  and  then 
continued  his  studies  in  New  York  City,  but  from  February,  1905, 
until  his  health  failed  entirely,  was  engaged  in  business  in  Chicago, 
111.,  where  he  died,  January  7,  1908,  in  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  after 
an  operation  for  appendicitis. 

He  had  pursued  graduate  studies  extensively  and  successfully, 
obtaining  the  degree  of  Master  of  Laws  from  New  York  University 
in  1894,  and  that  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Yale  in  1898. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Lebanon, 
Conn.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  Mason  of  the  thirty- 
second  degree  and  a  noble  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 

He  was  married  in  1888  to  Caroline  A.,  daughter  of  Edwin  A. 
and  Mary  F.  (Saxton)  Loomis,  of  Lebanon,  Conn.  They  had  two 
sons: 

Winthrop  Saxton,  Class  Boy,  born  September  19,  1888. 

Frederick  Maitland,  born  December  10,  1891. 


Charles  Adams 

Bond  and  Stock  Broker,  111  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Bronxville,  N.  Y. 

Charles  Adams  is  the  son  of  Joseph  Hinman  and  Emeline  Ann 
(McKee)  Adams,  who  were  married  January  18,  1855,  in  Terry- 
ville,  Conn.,  and  had  four  other  children:  Emma  Louise  Adams 
(living)  and  Adeline,  Samuel  and  Joseph  Adams  (deceased). 
Joseph  Hinman  Adams  was  born  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  August  19, 
1833,  and  died  in  Champagne,  111.,  in  May,  1870.  He  made  his 
home  in  Litchfield  and  Terryville,  Conn.,  and  was  president  of  the 
Eagle  Lock  Company  in  the  latter  place.  He  was  the  son  of 
Charles  Adams,  founder  of  the  New  Haven  Palladium,  and  the 
great-grandson  of  Rev.  Amos  Adams,  of  Roxbury,  Mass.,  a  chap- 
lain in  the  Revolutionary  War.  The  family  traces  its  descent  in 
this  country  to  Henry  Adams,  of  Braintree,  Mass.,  who  came  to 


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125 


CHARLES  ADAMS 


America  in  1634.  Adams'  mother  was  born  July  6,  1834,  in 
Terry  ville,  Conn.,  and  in  December,  1912,  was  residing  in  Litch- 
field.  She  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Rev.  Samuel  Andrew,  one  of 
the  founders  and  the  second  president  of  Yale,  who  graduated  at 
Harvard  in  1675  and  for  many  years  was  a  professor  at  that 
institution  and  acting  president  after  the  death  of  President  Oakes. 
His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Robert  Treat,  Colonial  governor  and 
deputy  governor  of  Connecticut  for  thirty  years. 

Adams  was  born  in  Terryville,  Conn.,  May  7,  1864,  but  spent 
his  boyhood  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  and  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Hartford  Public  High  School.  At  Yale  he  rowed  on  the  Freshman 
and  Sophomore  Class  crews,  was  president  of  the  Bicycle  Club  in 
Senior  year,  on  the  Senior  Prom  Committee,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  University  Club,  Gamma  Nu,  He  Boule,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Wolf's 
Head. 

He  became  a  stock  broker  shortly  after  graduation  and  was  for 
some  years  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Adams,  McNeill  &  Brigham 


BIOGRAPHIES 


(of  which  W.  S.  Brigham,  '87,  was  the  junior  partner),  members 
of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange.  For  a  number  of  years  he  has 
conducted  his  business  independently,  with  offices  at  111  Broadway, 
New  York  City.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Iron  Steamboat  Company 
of  New  York  City.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  of  Bronxville,  though  formerly  a  member  of  the  Reformed 
Church  in  Brooklyn  Heights,  where  he  served  as  deacon  from 
1898  to  1908.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  and 
of  the  Board  of  Governors  and  chairman  of  the  Greens  Committee 
of  the  Lawrence  Park  Country  Club. 

He  was  married  October  21,  1890,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to  Alice, 
daughter  of  John  T.  Sherman,  of  Brooklyn,  and  a  sister  of  Fred- 
erick D.  Sherman,  Yale  '95  S.  Mrs.  Adams  died  September  21, 
1901. 

He  married  on  November  7,  1907,  in  New  York  City,  Elizabeth 
Frances,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Edgar  Park,  and  granddaughter  of  the 
late  General  Clinton  B.  Fisk.  They  have  a  son  and  a  daughter: 

Joseph  Andrew,  born  September  26,  1908. 

Elizabeth,  born  October  9,  1909. 


Chandler  Parsons  Anderson 

Special  Arbitrator  of  American  and  British  Claims 
Lawyer,  Anderson  &  Anderson,  35  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  1618  Twenty-first  Street,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Chandler  P.  Anderson  is  the  son  of  Henry  Hill  and  Sarah 
Bostwick  (Burrall)  Anderson,  who  were  married  December  26, 
1861,  and  had  two  other  children,  sons:  Henry  Burrall  Anderson, 
Yale  '85,  and  William  Burrall  Anderson,  Yale  '86.  Henry  Hill 
Anderson  was  born  November  9,  1829,  in  Boston,  Mass.,  and  died 
September  17,  1896,  at  York  Harbor,  Maine.  He  was  graduated 
from  Williams  College  in  1849  and  practiced  his  profession,  law, 
in  New  York  City.  His  wife  was  born  September  15,  1838,  in 
South  Canaan,  Conn.  On  the  paternal  side  of  the  family  Anderson 
is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  while  his  mother  was  of  English 
descent. 


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127 


CHANDLER  PARSONS  ANDERSON 


Anderson  was  born  September  5,  1866,  in  Lakeville,  Conn.,  and 
prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.  He  was 
an  editor  of  the  Yale  Courant,  and  a  member  of  the  University 
Club,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

He  spent  the  year  following  graduation  in  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  and  after  some  time  in  a  law  office  in  New  York  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1890.  From  1890  to  1893  he  gained  valu- 
able preliminary  experience  as  managing  clerk  in  an  active  law 
office  and  in  1893  he  opened  an  independent  office,  practicing  alone 
until  1897.  In  that  year  the  firm  of  Anderson  &  Anderson  was 
formed,  with  his  brother,  Henry  Burrall  Anderson,  as  partner,  and 
this  connection  has  continued  to  the  present  time.  The  firm  is 
engaged  in  general  practice  and  has  been  identified  with  many 
important  cases. 

His  public  service  for  the  government  began  in  1896  and  1897, 
when  he  was  secretary  of  the  Behring  Sea  Claims  Commission. 
The  following  year  he  represented  the  United  States  as  secretary 


128  BIOGRAPHIES 

of  the  Anglo-American  Joint  High  Commission  for  the  settlement 
of  Canadian  questions.  Lord  Herschell  was  the  chairman  of  this 
commission,  and  the  work  undertaken  by  it  was  the  adjustment  of 
upwards  of  fourteen  unsettled  differences  with  Canada,  many  of 
which  were  of  vital  importance  in  the  cause  of  international  good 
will.  Owing  to  the  failure  of  the  commission  to  agree  upon  the 
Alaskan  Boundary  question,  all  the  other  questions  were  left 
unsettled  at  that  time,  but  it  is  interesting  to  note  that  since  then 
all  of  them  have  been  satisfactorily  settled  by  separate  treaties 
adjusting  the  differences  or  submitting  them  to  arbitration,  and 
Anderson  has  represented  the  United  States  in  the  preparation  and 
negotiation  of  all  of  these  treaties  and  in  the  arbitrations  held 
thereunder.  The  following  are  the  treaties  with  Great  Britain 
with  the  negotiation  of  which  he  has  thus  been  connected:  The 
treaty  concerning  the  fisheries  in  the  waters  contiguous  to  the 
United  States  and  Canada,  of  April  11,  1908;  the  treaty  for  the 
more  complete  definition  and  demarcation  of  the  boundary  between 
the  United  States  and  Canada,  of  April  11,  1908;  the  treaty  pro- 
viding for  wrecking  and  salvage  in  boundary  waters  and  the  con- 
veyance of  prisoners  between  the  United  States  and  Canada,  of 
May  18,  1908;  the  treaty  regulating  the  use  of  boundary  waters 
and  for  the  settlement  of  disputes  along  the  boundary  between  the 
United  States  and  Canada,  of  January  11,  1909;  the  North  Atlantic 
Coast  Fisheries  Arbitration  Treaty  of  January  27,  1909,  and  the 
Passamaquoddy  Bay  Boundary  Treaty,  of  May  21,  1910;  the 
treaty  of  July  7,  1911,  between  the  United  States,  Great  Britain, 
Russia  and  Japan  for  the  preservation  and  protection  of  fur  seals, 
and  the  treaty  of  July  20,  1912,  with  Great  Britain,  adopting,  with 
certain  modifications,  the  recommendations  of  the  Fisheries  Arbi- 
tration Award. 

In  1903  he  was  one  of  the  counsel  for  the  United  States  before 
the  Alaskan  Boundary  Tribunal,  and  subsequently  acted  as  counsel 
for  the  United  States  in  the  settlement  of  the  Passamaquoddy  Bay 
boundary.  In  1905  he  was  retained  by  Secretary  Root  as  special 
counsel  for  the  Department  of  State  in  relation  to  all  British  North 
American  questions.  He  acted  in  that  capacity  throughout  the 
Roosevelt  administration.  With  Secretary  Root  he  carried  through 
the  negotiations  resulting  in  the  Special  Agreement  for  the  Arbi- 


GRADUATES  129 


tration  of  the  North  Atlantic  Coast  Fisheries  question,  which  is 
regarded  by  many  as  the  most  important  ever  submitted  to  arbitra- 
tion by  America  since  the  settlement  of  the  Alabama  claims  at 
Geneva.  In  connection  therewith  he  was  appointed  by  President 
Roosevelt  agent  of  the  United  States  in  that  arbitration  which 
met  at  The  Hague  in  June,  1910. 

In  December,  1910,  he  was  appointed  by  President  Taft  coun- 
selor for  the  Department  of  State,  to  succeed  Mr.  Henry  M.  Hoyt, 
and  continued  in  that  office  until  April  23,  1913,  when  he  resigned 
in  order  to  enter  upon  his  duties  as  one  of  the  three  arbitrators 
selected  by  the  United  States  and  Great  Britain  for  the  arbitration 
of  outstanding  pecuniary  claims  under  their  treaty  of  August  18, 
1910.  The  other  members  of  the  Tribunal  are  the  Right  Honorable 
Sir  Charles  Fitzpatrick,  Chief  Justice  of  Canada,  appointed  on  the 
part  of  Great  Britain,  and  Mr.  Henri  Fromageot,  of  France,  who 
has  been  selected  by  both  governments  to  act  as  umpire.  This 
Tribunal  met  in  Washington  on  May  13,  1913,  for  its  first  session, 
and  held  an  adjourned  session  at  Ottawa  on  June  9. 

In  addition  to  this  work,  Anderson  represented  the  government 
of  Costa  Rica  as  its  counsel  in  the  boundary  arbitration  with  Panama 
before  the  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States  as  arbitrator,  by 
whom  an  award  was  rendered  on  September  12,  1914,  in  favor  of 
Costa  Rica. 

In  October,  1914,  he  wrote  from  London:  "At  the  beginning  of 
the  war  I  was  in  Paris  attending  a  session  of  the  Arbitration  Tri- 
bunal of  which  I  am  a  member,  and  we  were  about  to  render  our 
awards  in  a  number  of  cases  which  had  been  argued  before  us  at  a 
session  held  in  Washington  last  spring.  It  soon  became  evident, 
however,  when  mobilization  was  ordered,  that  the  business  of  set- 
tling international  differences  by  arbitration  was  one  of  those 
childish  things  which  the  world  had  outgrown.  When  I  got  back 
to  London  early  in  August,  I  was  overtaken  by  a  telegram  from 
the  Department  of  State  asking  me  to  undertake  a  special  mission 
here  as  legal  adviser  for  the  Department  in  regard  to  all  questions 
arising  in  connection  with  the  war,  and  I  have  been  here  ever  since 
in  that  capacity.  There  has  been  an  immense  amount  of  hard  work 
to  be  done  here,  but  it  has  of  course  been  exceedingly  interesting 
to  me  because  I  have  made  a  special  study  of  that  particular  kind  of 


180  BIOGRAPHIES 


work.  As  matters  are  now  pretty  well  straightened  out  here,  I  am 
expecting  to  start  next  week  for  Berlin  and  Vienna,  and  thence 
returning  here  by  way  of  Paris.  Beyond  that  I  have  not  made  any 
definite  plans,  except  that  I  hope  to  get  back  to  Washington  some 
time  in  December,  even  if  it  is  necessary  to  return  here  again 
later." 

Anderson  is  one  of  the  editors  of  the  American  Journal  of  Inter- 
national Law  and  a  frequent  contributor  to  that  and  other  leading 
periodicals.  "The  Extent  and  Limitations  of  the  Treaty  Making 
Power  under  the  Constitution"  and  "The  Final  Outcome  of  the 
Fisheries  Arbitration"  are  among  his  most  important  articles. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  and  the  Down  Town 
Association  of  New  York  City,  and  the  Metropolitan  Club  of 
Washington,  D.  C. 

He  was  married  May  17,  1899,  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  to  Harriet 
S.  Ward,  of  Washington.  They  have  a  son  and  a  daughter: 

Chandler  Parsons,  Jr.,  born  February  24,  1900. 

Harriet  Alice,  born  October  15,  1911. 


James  Archbald,  Jr. 

Engineer  and  Agent  for  the  Girard  Estate  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Girard  Water  Company,  405  Thompson  Building,  Pottsville,  Pa. 

Residence,  1504  Mahantongo  Street,  Pottsville,  Pa. 

James  Archbald,  Jr.,  is  the  son  of  James  Archbald,  5th,  and 
Hannah  Maria  (Albright)  Archbald,  who  were  married  January 
25,  1865,  and  had  seven  other  children,  four  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters: Joseph  Albright  Archbald,  Yale  '88  S.,  Elizabeth  (Archbald) 
Kerr,  Thomas  Frothingham  Archbald,  Yale  '96,  Augusta  (Arch- 
bald)  Brooks,  Walter  Masser  (died  April  28,  1880,  in  Scranton, 
Pa.),  Donald  (died  April  30,  1883,  in  Scranton,  Pa.)  and  Ruth 
Sellers  Archbald.  An  uncle,  Robert  Wodrow  Archbald,  '71,  and 
two  cousins,  Robert  Wodrow  Archbald,  Jr.,  '98,  and  Hugh  Arch- 
bald,  '03,  are  also  Yale  men.  James  Archbald,  5th,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1838,  at  Sand  Lake,  N.  Y.,  and  died  October  4,  1910,  in 
Venice,  Italy.  He  was  graduated  at  Union  College  in  1861  as  a 
civil  engineer  and  thereafter  practiced  his  profession.  From  1870 


GRADUATES 


131 


JAMES  ARCHBALD,  JR. 


to  1899  he  was  chief  engineer  for  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  & 
Western  Railroad;  1883  to  1890,,  engineer  and  manager  of  the 
Barber  Asphalt  Paving  Company;  1892  to  1900,  president  of  the 
Albright  Coal  Company,  and  1905  to  1907,  chief  engineer  for  the 
Mississippi  Central  Railroad.  His  father,  James,  4?th,  came  from 
Scotland  in  1807,  when  twelve  years  of  age,  to  Auriesville,  N.  Y., 
while  his  mother,  Sarah  Augusta  Temple  Frothingham,  was  de- 
scended in  the  sixth  generation  from  William  Frothingham,  who 
came  from  England  to  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in  1630.  Our  class- 
mate's mother,  Hannah  Maria  (Albright)  Archbald,  was  born 
August  3,  1841,  at  Ashland  Furnace,  Pa.,  and  died  March  11, 
1915,  at  Scranton,  Pa.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  Jacob 
Albright,  whose  paternal  grandfather,  Andrew  Albrecht,  came  from 
Germany  to  Christian  Spring,  Pa.,  in  1750,  and  his  maternal  great- 
grandfather, Bathazer  von  Orthe,  came  from  Germany  to  Lebanon 
County,  Pa.,  in  1725.  Mrs.  Archbald's  mother,  Elizabeth  Sellers, 
was  of  English  Quaker  descent. 


182  BIOGRAPHIES 


James  Archbald,  Jr.,  was  born  February  19,  1866,  in  Scranton, 
Pa.,  where  he  attended  school  until  the  year  before  entering  Yale, 
when  he  was  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  In  college  he 
received  philosophical  oration  appointments  in  Junior  and  Senior 
years  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa;  he  was  treasurer  and 
president  of  the  University  Club,  a  member  of  the  Junior  Prom- 
enade Committee,  president  of  the  University  Baseball  Association 
and  the  Intercollegiate  Baseball  League.  His  societies  were 
Gamma  Nu,  Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head. 

Since  graduation  he  has  been  connected  with  several  coal  com- 
panies as  manager  and  from  1898  to  1911  was  a  partner  with  his 
father-in-law,  Heber  S.  Thompson,  Yale  '61,  in  civil  and  mining 
engineering.  In  June,  1911,  following  the  death  of  Mr.  Thompson, 
Archbald  was  appointed  to  his  positions  as  engineer  and  agent  of 
the  Girard  Estate  and  general  manager  of  the  Girard  Water  Com- 
pany, by  the  Board  of  Directors  of  City  Trusts  of  the  city  of 
Philadelphia.  He  has  continued  in  these  positions  and  is  also 
consulting  engineer  for  the  Coxe  Estate,  engineer  for  the  William 
Penn  Colliery,  Susquehanna  Coal  Company,  engineer  for  the 
Girard  Colliery,  W.  R.  McTurk  Coal  Company,  and  director  and 
vice-president  of  the  Miner's  National  Bank,  of  Pottsville,  Pa. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  is  treasurer  and 
a  director  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  Pottsville. 
In  politics  he  is  an  Independent  Republican.  For  eight  years  he 
served  in  the  National  Guard  of  Pennsylvania,  1881  to  1883, 
private,  Company  C,  Thirteenth  Regiment;  1898  to  1899,  captain, 
Company  M,  Eleventh  Regiment;  and  1899  to  1901,  captain,  Com- 
pany F,  Fourth  Regiment.  From  1904  to  1911,  he  was  lieutenant- 
colonel  and  aide-de-camp  on  the  governor's  staff.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  Pottsville  Club,  Potts- 
ville Outdoor  Club  (president,  1902,  1903,  1905  to  1912),  Grad- 
uates Club  of  New  Haven  and  the  American  Institute  of  Mining 
Engineers. 

He  was  married  October  21,  1897,  in  Pottsville,  Pa.,  to  Mar- 
garetta,  daughter  of  Heber  S.  Thompson,  Yale  '61,  deceased,  and  a 
sister  of  Samuel  Clifton  Thompson,  Yale  '91.  Her  mother's  name 
was  Sarah  E.  Beck.  They  have  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  all 
born  in  Pottsville,  Pa.: 


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Margaretta  Thompson,  born  April  29,  1899. 
Sara  Thompson,  born  September  13,  1900. 
James,  7th,  born  August  2,  1905. 
Wodrow,  born  October  18,  1907. 


Arthur  John  Arn 

Residence,  710  Barnett  Avenue,  Kansas  City,  Kans. 

Arthur  J.  Arn  is  a  son  of  Ferdinand  and  Katherine  (Bohrer) 
Arn,  who  were  married  in  March,  1850,  and  had  three  other  chil- 
dren: Edward  F.  Arn  (died  September  17,  1906),  Isabel  C.  Arn 
and  Eliza  Louise  Arn.  Ferdinand  Arn  was  born  in  Baden,  Ger- 
many, on  October  24,  1821,  and  was  brought  to  this  country  in 
1826,  his  family  settling  in  Baltimore,  Md.  Shortly  afterwards 
they  removed  to  Ohio,  where  his  father  founded  the  town  of  Arn- 
heim,  Brown  County,  in  1828.  Ferdinand  Arn  resided  there  until 
1850,  then  spent  seven  years  in  Maysville,  Ky.,  removing  to  Kansas 
in  1857,  living  at  Quindaro  until  1872,  since  which  time  he  has 
resided  in  Kansas  City.  Katherine  (Bohrer)  Arn  was  born  March 
21,  1832,  in  Talefrasher,  Bavaria,  and  died  April  11,  1898,  in 
Kansas  City,  Kans.  Her  parents  came  to  Arnheim  from  Germany 
in  1834. 

Arn  was  born  January  12,  1863,  in  Quindaro,  Kans.,  later  living 
in  Wyandotte,  now  a  part  of  Kansas  City,  and  prepared  at  the 
Wyandotte  Academy.  He  entered  Oberlin  in  the  Class  of  '86,  but 
left  and  came  to  Yale,  joining  '87  in  Sophomore  year.  He  received 
a  second  colloquy  Senior  appointment. 

The  two  years  after  graduation  he  spent  in  travel  in  this  coun- 
try and  Europe,  and  in  the  study  of  philology  at  the  University  of 
Heidelberg.  He  then  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and 
received  the  degree  of  B.D.  in  1892.  He  wrote  before  our  last 
reunion : 

"Twelve  of  the  years  since  the  days  in  which  we  used  to  put 
polish  on  the  Yale  Fence  were  spent  in  my  first  pastorate — that 
of  the  Congregational  Church,  New  Lisbon,  Wis.  Work  was  begun 
there  in  1892  and  closed  in  1904,  when  I  resigned  to  take  charge  of 
the  Second  Congregational  Church,  Eau  Claire,  Wis.  A  happy 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


ARTHUR  JOHN    ARX 


pastorate  of  this  church  continued  until  September,  1907.  At 
this  time  the  death  of  my  brother,  who  had  charge  of  my  father's 
estate  in  Kansas  City,  made  it  necessary  for  me  to  intermit  for  a 
time  my  loved  employ'  and  come  home  to  succeed  him  in  the  care 
and  settlement  of  the  family's  affairs.  Thus  it  is  that  I  find  myself 
at  the  present  time  in  the  place  from  which  I  first  started  for  Yale." 

Although  Arn  resumed  his  pastoral  work  for  a  short  time  in  1909, 
at  Nekposa,  Wis.,  and  later  supplied  the  Atlantic  Congregational 
Church,  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  for  the  summer,  he  has  had  to  devote  his 
time  to  the  management  of  the  estate.  He  hopes  to  soon  resume 
his  professional  work.  During  his  active  pastorates  he  published 
a  number  of  articles  locally. 

By  nature  a  Democrat,  he  acts  with  that  party  which  seems  to 
inspire  the  best  hope  of  reform.  During  his  residence  in  New 
Lisbon  he  was  active  in  politics,  being  a  candidate  for  mayor  and 
losing  by  a  very  small  number  of  votes.  In  1905-06  he  was  secre- 


GRADUATES  135 


tary  of  the  Chippewa  Valley  League,  a  joint  political  organization 
of  the  cities  of  Eau  Claire  and  Chippewa  Falls,  Wis. 

He  was  married  June  20,  1899,  in  Madison,  Wis.,  to  Anna 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  P.  and  Anna  Elizabeth  Tarnutzer. 
Mrs.  Arn  is  a  graduate  of  Wisconsin  State  University,  '95.  They 
have  two  children : 

Alden  T.,  born  September  24,  1901,  in  New  Lisbon,  Wis. 

Ida  Jeanette,  born  January  22,  1909,  in  Kansas  City,  Kans. 


Willoughby  Maynard  Babcock 

Lawyer,  610  Temple  Court,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Residence,  2504  Lake  of  the  Isles  Boulevard,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Willoughby  M.  Babcock  is  the  only  son  of  Willoughby  and  Helen 
Elizabeth  (Maynard)  Babcock,  who  were  married  October  14, 
1858.  Willoughby  Babcock,  his  father,  was  born  January  12, 
1832,  in  Scott,  Cortland  County,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Samuel  Bab- 
cock, of  Blandford,  Mass.,  and  Louisa  (Atwater)  Babcock,  of 
Sempronius,  N.  Y.  He  was  educated  at  McGrawville  Seminary 
and  the  New  York  Central  College  and  attended  the  Albany  Law 
School  in  1857.  He  was  a  lawyer  and  practiced  in  the  firm  of 
Davis  &  Babcock  until  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  when  he 
joined  the  Third  New  York  Volunteers  as  first  lieutenant.  He 
later  entered  the  Seventy-fifth  New  York,  served  as  major  and  was 
wounded  in  the  battle  of  Port  Hudson.  He  was  promoted  to 
lieutenant-colonel  and  led  the  brigade  in  the  battle  of  Winchester, 
September  19,  1864,  dying  on  October  5,  1864,  at  Winchester,  Va., 
from  wounds  received  in  that  engagement.  June  13,  1868,  he  was 
brevetted  lieutenant-colonel  and  brigadier  general  by  President 
Johnson  for  gallantry  on  the  field  of  battle.  Our  classmate's 
mother,  Helen  Elizabeth  Maynard,  was  born  December  5,  1837, 
in  Williamson,  Wayne  County,  N.  Y.,  and  died  October  8,  1907, 
in  Minneapolis,  Minn.  She  was  educated  at  McGrawville  Semi- 
nary and  spent  ten  years  studying  in  Germany  and  Switzerland, 
and  later  taught  German  for  many  years. 

Babcock  was  born  in  Homer,  N.  Y.,  October  28,  1864,  and  spent 
his  early  life  in  Brunswick,  Germany,  where  he  attended  the  Real- 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


WlLLOUGHBY   MAYNARD    BABCOCK 


schule,  and  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  College  de  Geneve,  at  Geneva, 
Switzerland.  In  Yale  he  won  a  second  mathematical  prize  Fresh- 
man year,  maintained  the  rank  of  high  oration  throughout  the 
course,  and  received  two-year  honors  in  ancient  languages  and  one- 
year  honors  in  political  science,  history  and  law  in  Senior  year. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club,  Sigma  Nu  and  Phi  Beta 
Kappa. 

On  graduation  from  college  he  entered  the  Yale  Law  School, 
from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  cum  laude  in  1889.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  has  since  practiced  law  in  Minneapolis. 

In  politics  he  is  an  Independent  Republican.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Congregational  church  and  of  the  Saturday  Lunch  Club,  a 
club  with  interests  devoted  to  civic  betterment. 

He  was  married  July  12,  1892,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to  Emily, 
daughter  of  Jeremiah  J.  Atwater,  a  merchant,  and  Frances  Cath- 
erine (Moulthrop)  Atwater.  They  have  one  son: 

Willoughby  Maynard,  Jr.,  born  July  27,   1893,  in  Minneapolis. 


GRADUATES 


137 


He  graduated  from  the  University  of  Minnesota  in  the  Class  of 
191 4,  receiving  the  degree  of  B.A.,  with  distinction  in  history  and 
the  "1889  Memorial  Prize  in  History." 


*Rodmond  Vernon  Beach 

Died  September  29,  1898 

Rodmond  V.  Beach  was  a  son  of  John  Sheldon  Beach,  Yale 
1839.,  and  Rebecca  (Gibbons)  Beach,  who  were  married  September 
15,  1847,  and  had  six  other  children.  Two  other  sons  were  grad- 
uated at  Yale,  John  Kimberly  Beach,  '77,  and  Francis  Gibbons 
Beach,  '83.  John  Sheldon  Beach  was  born  in  New  Haven,  July 
23,  1819,  the  son  of  John  and  Marcia  (Curtiss)  Beach.  From 
the  time  of  his  graduation  his  time  was  entirely  devoted  to  the 
study  and  practice  of  law,  and  in  his  latter  years  he  was  acknowl- 
edged the  leader  of  his  profession  in  the  community.  The  honorary 


RODMOXD  VERSTON  BEACH 


188  BIOGRAPHIES 


degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  was  conferred  on  him  by  Yale  in  1887. 
His  wife,  Rebecca  Gibbons,  was  the  daughter  of  Dr.  William 
Gibbons,  of  Wilmington,  Del. 

Beach  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  May  18,  1865,  and  was 
prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven. 

After  graduation  from  the  College  he  entered  the  Yale  Law 
School,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1889,  and 
was  then  engaged  in  practice  to  some  extent.  He  had  also  an 
ardent  love  for  military  life,  and  in  June,  1891,  enlisted  in  the 
New  Haven  Grays.  On  the  outbreak  of  the  war  with  Spain  he  was 
appointed  second  lieutenant  in  the  First  U.  S.  Engineers,  and  was 
soon  after  commissioned  as  first  lieutenant.  His  regiment  was 
in  camp  at  Peekskill,  N.  Y.,  until  it  left  for  Porto  Rico  on  August 
9.  He  died  at  Ponce,  Porto  Rico,  September  29,  1898,  from 
typhoid  fever. 

He  was  unmarried. 

[For  further  biographical  notice,  see  Quindecennial  Record, 
page  65.] 


Gerald  Hamilton  Beard,  Ph.D. 

Minister  of  the  Park  Street  Congregational  Church,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Residence,  319  Barnum  Avenue,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Gerald  H.  Beard  is  the  son  of  Richard  and  Anne  (Olding) 
Beard,  who  were  married  November  18,  1850,  and  had  six  other 
children,  four  daughters  and  two  sons:  Annie  Elizabeth  Sarah 
Beard,  Louisa  Marion  Beard,  Richard  Olding  Beard,  M.  D.,  Chicago 
Medical  College  '82,  Helena  Margaret  Beard,  William  Harrington 
Beard  and  Anna  Frederica  Beard.  Richard  Beard  was  born  in 
Devonshire,  England,  February  4,  1825,  and  came  to  this  country 
in  1870,  making  his  home  in  Chicago  and  Oak  Park,  111.,  where 
he  died  September  21,  1901.  He  was  a  patent  leather  manufacturer 
and  rubber  goods  merchant.  His  wife,  Anne  Olding,  was  born  in 
London,  England,  December  20,  1818,  and  died  in  Oak  Park, 
111.,  in  September,  1909. 

Beard  was  born  in  Hammersmith,  England,  March  20,  1862,  and 
lived  in  Clapham  Park,  London,  until  his  parents  removed  to 


GRADUATES 


139 


<*^i&i*i{M*^ 


GERALD   HAMILTON   BEARD 


America.  With  his  brother  Harrington,  he  was  in  the  book  and 
stationery  business  in  Chicago  from  1877  to  1884.  He  was  pre- 
pared by  private  study  and  entered  Yale  as  a  Sophomore.  He 
received  a  first  premium  in  English  composition,,  a  Junior  exhi- 
bition prize,  high  oration  appointments  for  the  course,  honors  in 
English  and  philosophy,  and  a  Townsend  premium,  was  elected  to 
Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club.  In  1890 
he  received  the  John  Addison  Porter  prize  and  the  Hooker  Fellow- 
ship in  the  Divinity  School. 

He  writes  as  follows  of  his  life:  "After  graduating  with  '87,  I 
entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  receiving  my  degree  in  1890. 
Took  postgraduate  work,  October,  1890,  to  1892 — six  months  of 
which  time  was  spent  in  Germany.  I  was  ordained  to  the  ministry 
in  the  autumn  of  1892,  at  South  Norwalk,  Conn.,  and  served  as 
minister  of  the  Congregational  Church  there  from  October,  1892, 
to  1900;  and  of  the  College  Street  Congregational  Church  in  Bur- 
lington, Vt.,  from  October,  1900,  to  1904.  I  took  a  special  course  in 


140  BIOGRAPHIES 


chemistry  and  biology  at  Sheff  in  1904-05,  having  become  in 
October,  1904,,  acting  pastor  of  the  Park  Street  Congregational 
Church  in  Bridgeport,  and  assuming  its  permanent  pastorate  on 
May  1,  1905.  It  was  in  this  year  that  my  essay  on  'The  History 
of  the  Catholic  English  and  the  American  Revised  Versions  of  the 
Bible'  was  awarded  the  second  of  the  Gould  prizes, — $500, — the 
first  among  some  two  hundred  submitted  from  this  country. 

"Have  traveled  only  in  this  country  since  1891, — once  in  the 
South,  two  or  three  times  in  the  Northwest.  We  have  a  summer 
cottage  in  Lisbon,  N.  H.,  which  we  enjoy  greatly  every  summer, 
with  its  opportunities  for  play-work  in  our  pine  woods,  making 
improvements,  mountain  climbs,  drives,  etc. 

"There  is  not  much  of  excitement  or  special  interest  in  my  life 
or  work  to  furnish  material  for  a  report.  I  find  life  good.  I  like 
my  work,  though  it  crowds  overmuch.  The  great  variety  of  tasks  it 
sets  one  to  do  is  good  and  makes  it  possible  to  work  long  hours. 
The  big  human  interests  of  present-day  government  and  politics 
appeal  to  me  and  I  find  it  refreshing  to  lecture  occasionally.  I 
am  in  hearty  sympathy  with  the  constructively  liberal  and  pro- 
gressive movements  in  theology,  in  the  churches,  in  social  service 
and  in  politics,  and  want  to  do  what  little  I  can  to  help  it  along. 
I  believe  the  really  conservative  forces — physical,  social  and 
moral — are  to  be  found  in  progressive  men  and  measures.  I 
believe  in  Theodore  Roosevelt  as  the  most  maligned,  best  loved, 
most  efficient  and  greatest  man  of  our  time.  I  believe  in  the  Pro- 
gressive party,  as  I  believe  in  Yale, — with  all  my  heart  but  not 
wholly.  And  I  believe  in  '87,  and  wish  the  men  of  '87,  Godspeed, 
whether  they  agree  with  me  or  not." 

Beard  received  the  degree  of  B.D.  at  Yale  in  1890  and  Ph.D.  in 
1892.  He  is  a  member  of  the  committee  on  moral  legislation  of  the 
State  Conference  of  Congregational  Churches,  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  Missionary  Society  of  Connecticut  and  a  corporate  member 
of  the  American  Board  of  Foreign  Missions. 

He  was  married  July  27,  1892,  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  to  Mary, 
daughter  of  Charles  W.  Keyes,  a  wholesale  druggist,  and  Louise 
(Collins)  Keyes.  They  have  four  daughters: 

Louise  Frederica,  born  September  22,  1893,  in  South  Norwalk, 
Conn. 


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141 


Katharine,  born  December  31,  1898,  in  South  Norwalk,  Conn. 

Eleanor,  born  December  18,  1902,  in  Burlington,  Vt. 

Esther  Keyes,  born  May  27,  1907,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

The  oldest  daughter  is  in  Smith  College,  the  second  in  the  Bridge- 
port High  School,  and  the  two  younger  children  are  in  grammar 
school. 


*John  Bennetto 

Died  October  10,  1892 

John  Bennetto,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Ann  Bennetto,  was 
born  in  Pool,  Cornwall,  England,  January  22,  1862.  After  their 
removal  to  this  country,  the 
family  settled  in  Bridgeport,  "  . 
Conn.,  where  the  father  died  in 
the  early  childhood  of  this  son, 
who  subsequently  learned  the 
printer's  trade.  By  unusual 
effort,  while  pursuing  his  daily 
labor,  he  prepared  himself  for 
college,  and  through  his  college 
course,  although  obliged  to  earn 
his  way,  he  attained  high  honors 
in  scholarship  and  literature,  and 
held  the  warmest  regard  and 
esteem  of  the  whole  class.  He 
was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
and  was  a  member  of  Chi  Delta 
Theta. 

He  spent  the  year  1887-88  in 
graduate   study   in    New   Haven 
(on     a     fellowship),     and     then 
entered  the   Law  School,  where 
he  was   graduated   with   distinc- 
tion in  1890.     He  then  went  to  New  York  City,  to  accept  a  position 
in  the  law  office  of  Simpson,  Thacher  &  Barnum.     In  the  summer  of 
1891  he  was  promoted  to  be  their  managing  clerk,  and  in  November 


JOHN  BENNETTO 


142 


BIOGRAPHIES 


he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.     His  death  occurred,  from  appendicitis, 
in  New  York  City,  on  October  10,  1892,  after  an  illness  of  two  days. 
He  was  unmarried. 

[The  Bennetto  Scholarship  was  established  by  the  Class  in 
1902,  to  be  awarded  annually  to  a  Junior  and  a  Senior,  "whose 
position  in  college  and  whose  aims  are  like  those  of  John  Ben- 
netto." Resolutions,  prepared  upon  his  death,  are  printed  on  page 
25  of  the  Sexennial  Record.] 


*Elmer  Fox  Berkele,  M.D. 

Died  August  20,  1892 

Elmer  F.  Berkele,  only  surviving  son  of  Louis  H.  and  Julia  A. 
Berkele,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  February  26,  1866.  He 
prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  received  a  dispute 
stand  in  college. 

In  the  fall  of  1887  he  entered 
the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  was  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  M.D.  in  June,  1890. 
He  then  received,  in  a  competi- 
tive examination,  an  appoint- 
ment on  the  medical  staff  of 
Bellevue  Hospital,  extending 
from  the  fall  of  1890  to  April, 
1892.  By  his  devotion  to  his 
work  there  he  was  deservedly 
promoted  to  the  head  of  the 
staff.  In  the  winter  of  1891-92 
his  health  was  impaired  through 
consumption,  and  although  after 
a  long  and  serious  illness  he  re- 
covered sufficiently  to  finish  his 
term  at  the  hospital,  he  was  then 
ordered  by  his  physicians  to 
ELMER  Fox  BERKELE  Colorado.  He  never  regained  his 


GRADUATES  143 


strength,  and  after  a   serious  illness   of  only  three  days,  died  at 
Canon  City,  Colo.,  August  20,  1892. 
He  was  unmarried. 

[Resolutions,  prepared  upon  his  death,  are  printed  on  page  25 
of  the  Sexennial  Record.] 


Lewis  Sherrill  Bigelow 

North  Andover,  Mass. 

Lewis  S.  Bigelow  is  the  son  of  Horace  Ransom  and  Cornelia 
(Sherrill)  Bigelow.  The  Bigelow  stock  belongs  to  the  early 
New  England  plantations,  particularly  of  the  Plymouth  and 
Massachusetts  Bay  growth.  By  1800,  however,  the  family  had 
moved  over  to  New  York,  and  Horace  R.  Bigelow  (1820-1894) 
was  born  in  Watervliet,  Rensselaer  County.  He  bred  himself  to 
the  law,  and  was  a  leading  lawyer  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.  Mrs.  Bigelow 
was  of  a  familv  which  came  from  England  to  Long  Island  in  1702, 
and  is  still  represented  there.  She  was  born  in  New  Hartford, 
N.  Y.,  in  1837,  and  died  in  1910. 

Bigelow  was  born  in  New  Hartford  also.  The  date  was  June 
29,  1863.  His  preparatory  school  was  Phillips  Exeter.  He 
entered  college  in  1881,  and  for  two  years  he  roomed  with  Merrill, 
'85,  at  82  Wall  and  464  Chapel  Streets.  He  was  captain  and  end 
rush  of  the  1885  Freshman  Football  Team,  and  that  fall  played 
in  the  field  on  the  Class  Baseball  Nine.  Leaving  college  at  the 
end  of  Sophomore  year,  he  studied  law  for  a  time  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan  and  at  his  home  in  St.  Paul,  but  returned  to  Yale 
in  the  fall  of  1885  and  graduated  with  '87.  In  1889  he  graduated 
from  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  became  a  clerk  in  the  office  of 
Flandrau,  Squires  &  Cutcheon  in  St.  Paul.  The  East  was  calling 
him  back,  however,  and  a  few  years  later  he  was  on  the  field  of 
New  York  journalism.  He  was  attached  to  the  Evening  Sun  or  the 
World  until  1898.  The  next  five  years  he  spent  in  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, connected  with  the  department  of  comparative  literature. 
When  Prof.  George  E.  Woodberry  retired  from  his  professorship, 
Bigelow  left  Columbia  with  him.  Since  then  he  has  been  variously 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


LEWIS   SHEIIRILL   BJGELOW 


engaged.  Although  a  "resident"  of  New  York  and  retaining  an 
apartment  there,  he  spends  most  of  his  time  at  his  home  in  North 
Andover,  Mass.  He  says  that  probably  he  should  be  listed  as  a 
"farmer."  In  his  part  of  Andover  there  are  plenty  of  barns, 
pastures  and  hay  rakes,  to  be  sure;  but  the  country  houses,  broad 
lawns  and  golf  sticks  are  more  numerous.  Bigelow  is  an  enthusias- 
tic golfer,  and  laid  out  the  attractive  links  of  the  North  Andover 
Country  Club. 

He  was  married  in  Boston,  on  April  13,  1901,  to  Mary  Frances, 
daughter  of  William  A.  and  Elizabeth  Haven  (Hall)  Russell.  The 
Bigelows  have  two  children,  both  New  Yorkers  by  birth: 

Deborah,  born  February  22,  1902. 

Lewis  Sherrill,  born  December  19,  1904. 

[This  sketch  is  taken,  for  the  most  part,  from  the  Quarter- 
Centenary  Record  of  the  Class  of  1885,  Yale  University.] 


GRADUATES 


Leslie  Dayton  Bissell,  Ph.D. 

Owner  and  Principal  of  The  Coit  School  for  Boys,  Konradstrasse  14, 
Munich,  Germany 

Leslie  D.  Bissell  is  the  son  of  Lucius  Warren  Bissell  and 
Abbie  Minerva  (Howard)  Bissell,  who  were  married  November  10, 
1857,  and  had  three  other  children:  Arthur  E.  Bissell,  Mrs.  Frank 
Gibbs,  and  Mary  A.  Bissell.  Lucius  W.  Bissell  was  born  June  8, 
1833,  in  Wardsboro,  Vt.,  and  died  in  November,  1911,  in  Boston, 
Mass.  He  entered  the  army  in  1861  as  a  private  and  served 
throughout  the  war,  receiving  promotion  to  the  rank  of  first  lieuten- 
ant. This  service  permanently  disabled  him  physically  and  the 
remainder  of  his  life  was  spent  in  Keene,  N.  H.,  and  Saxtons 
River,  Vt.  His  first  American  ancestor,  John  Bissell,  came  to 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  from  England,  but  soon,  with  one  hun- 
dred others,  under  the  leadership  of  Thomas  Hooker,  settled  the 
towns  of  Hartford  and  Windsor,  Conn.  John  Bissell  received  a 
charter  from  Charles  I  for  a  ferry  across  the  Connecticut  River 
at  Windsor,  which  still  retains  the  name,  Bissell's  Ferry.  Abbie 
Minerva  (Howard)  Bissell  was  born  October  27,  1834,  in  Dover, 
Vt.,  and  died  March  13,  1912,  in  Keene,  N.  H.  She  was  of  Scotch- 
Irish  descent,  her  ancestors  having  come  first  to  Nova  Scotia  and 
then  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  Brimfield,  Mass.  Later 
John  Howard  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  in  Dover,  Vt. 

Bissell  was  born  in  Dover,  Vt.,  February  7,  1861,  and  spent  his 
boyhood  at  Saxtons  River,  Vt.  He  prepared  at  the  Vermont 
Academy  and  in  college  received  a  second  colloquy  appointment  in 
Junior  year.  Although  he  took  a  general  interest  in  all  athletics, 
he  could  not  devote  the  time  required  to  try  for  teams.  He  was, 
however,  captain  of  the  University  Tug-of-War  Team  in  Senior 
year. 

The  first  six  years  after  graduation  from  college  he  was  instructor 
in  mathematics  at  Siglar's  Preparatory  School,  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 
From  1893  to  1898,  he  was  at  Yale,  part  of  the  time  in  graduate 
work  in  physics  and  mathematics;  was  John  Sloane  Fellow  in 
physics  for  two  years,  assistant  in  physics,  1893-97,  under  Prof. 
A.  W.  Wright,  and  the  last  year  was  instructor  in  experimental 
physics.  He  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  from  Yale  in  1896. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


LESLIE  DAYTON  BISSELL 


He  spent  one  year  (1898-99)  in  Germany,  studying  principally 
at  Berlin  University.  From  1899  to  1904-  he  was  instructor  in 
physics  and  mathematics  at  the  Hotchkiss  School,  Lakeville,  Conn., 
and  from  the  latter  date  until  1908  was  head  of  the  chemistry 
department  in  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord.  He  has  since  been 
connected  with  The  Coit  School  for  Boys  in  Munich;  from  1908 
to  1910  as  associate  principal  and  since  1910  the  owner  and  prin- 
cipal. In  February,  1913,  he  wrote  the  Secretary  as  follows: 

"My  dear  George: 

"Your  request  for  a  narrative  account  of  twenty-five  years  of  one's 
life  seems  very  unique.  Such  a  book  entitled,  'The  Confessions  of 
the  Class  of  1887,  Yale  College,'  would  undoubtedly  be  one  of 
the  best  sellers  of  the  year.  But  here  is  a  judicious  selection  of 
'all  that  is  fit  to  print,'  and  it  is  not  at  all  interesting.  To  our  sons 
and  grandsons,  however,  these  historical  narratives  may  be  of 
interest  as  well  as  to  our  classmates. 


GRADUATES 


"Having  paid  my  own  expenses  through  college  for  the  four 
years,  I  found  myself  at  graduation  some  four  hundred  dollars  in 
debt.  As  the  quickest  way  of  earning  this  amount  I  accepted  a 
position  as  teacher.  At  the  same  time,  the  life  of  a  teacher  appealed 
strongly  to  me  because  my  tastes  were  literary.  A  book  had  always 
been  my  greatest  pleasure.  My  preparation  for  college  had  been 
very  inadequate  and  in  college  I  was  always  handicapped  in 
scholarship. 

"Out  of  college  I  kept  up  some  studies  and  carried  out  my  plans 
of  taking  the  doctor's  degree.  The  three  years  so  spent  were  most 
valuable  and  pleasant.  During  the  five  years  of  graduate  study  and 
teaching  at  Yale  I  also  formed  some  lasting  friendships  among  the 
younger  instructors  of  the  University. 

"In  1891  I  spent  my  first  summer  in  Europe.  This  had  been 
one  of  the  dreams  of  my  life,  and  I  little  thought  then  that  trips 
abroad  would  be  frequent,  or  that  later  I  should  permanently  live 
in  Germany,  have  two  sons  born  there,  and  hear  them  speak 
German  before  they  learned  their  native  tongue. 

"After  resigning  my  instructorship  at  Yale  in  1898,  I  spent  most 
of  the  following  year  at  Berlin.  The  work  in  the  University  was 
valuable,  but  quite  as  much  so  my  study  of  German  language  and 
life.  This  year  was  one  of  great  opportunities  and  made  a  pro- 
found impression  on  my  life.  Life  in  Europe  changes  and  broadens 
an  American's  point  of  view  most  decidedly.  For  the  first  time  the 
glaring  faults  in  our  political  system  stand  out  in  true  perspective, 
and  one  must  admit  that  Europe  has  much  that  it  can  teach  us. 

"My  travels  in  Europe  have  included,  outside  of  Germany,  the 
British  Islands,  France,  Switzerland,  Italy  and  Austria.  The 
Bavarian  Tyrol  has  become  familiar  from  tramping  and  also  from 
many  ski  tours  in  winter.  I  have  explored  on  foot  much  of  the 
Austrian  Tyrol.  I  find  these  picturesque  mountains  quite  as  inter- 
esting as  Switzerland. 

"The  out-of-doors  life  has  always  had  great  attractions  for  me, 
and  from  childhood  I  have  been  very  fond  of  the  mountains.  From 
Munich  the  mountains  are  less  than  two  hours  away,  and  many 
week-ends  are  spent  in  tramping  or  ski-running.  Ski-running  in 
the  mountains  is  one  of  the  keenest  of  sports.  Coming  down  a 
mountain  on  skis  is  quite  as  interesting  as  sailing  a  boat  in  a  yacht 


148  BIOGRAPHIES 


race.  It  is  almost  as  exciting  as  being  one  of  a  bobsleigh  crew 
on  the  Cresta  Run  at  St.  Moritz.  My  interest  in  golfing  and 
sailing  has  declined  in  favor  of  exploring  on  foot  among  the  moun- 
tains. But  I  have  not  become  a  lover  of  making  dangerous  ascents. 
My  age  is  against  that,  and  there  is  a  family  to  think  about. 

"Shooting  was  one  of  my  great  pleasures.  A  couple  of  summers 
in  the  Maine  and  New  Hampshire  forests  still  stand  out  in  striking 
relief.  Also  do  several  summers  spent  sailing  on  the  coast  of  Nova 
Scotia. 

"Secondary  school  education  has,  of  course,  been  my  great  inter- 
est in  life,  and  that  has  been  my  life-work  for  most  of  the  twenty- 
five  years  since  we  left  college.  In  fact,  I  did  some  teaching  before 
entering  college.  A  teacher's  remuneration  for  his  work  is  princi- 
pally the  deep  and  lasting  satisfaction  of  seeing  his  pupils  expand 
in  mind  and  character  along  the  right  lines.  This  I  realized  when 
I  devoted  myself  to  educational  work.  There  are  no  financial 
prizes  to  be  won.  One  must  live  the  simple  life  and  enjoy  it. 

"It  has  always  been  a  source  of  disappointment  that  our  Alma 
Mater  has  not  taken  a  more  leading  position  in  educational  matters. 
Our  educational  system  has  been  in  a  constant  state  of  change,  and 
as  regards  the  secondary  schools,  Yale  has  exerted  practically  no 
leadership.  Such  decided  conservatism  and  real  lack  of  interest, 
and  lack  of  knowledge  in  regard  to  the  secondary  schools,  brings 
no  feeling  of  pride  to  the  graduates  of  Yale. 

"Here  at  Munich  I  am  trying  to  maintain  a  college  preparatory 
school  of  the  first  grade  for  American  boys.  I  do  not  want  the 
number  of  resident  pupils  to  exceed  twenty.  At  present  the 
number  is  limited  to  twelve.  There  has  been  no  school  in  Europe 
where  an  American  boy  can  secure  a  proper  preparation  for  our 
universities.  The  record  made  by  our  boys  in  college  seems  to 
indicate  that  we  are  fairly  successful. 

"Life  in  Munich  is  a  source  of  constant  pleasure.  Art,  music, 
advantages  for  study  along  any  desired  line,  all  are  here.  One 
cannot  help  being  enthusiastic  about  a  city  which  offers  everything 
that  a  European  city  can  offer  to  an  American. 

"Now,  Mr.  Secretary,  I  am  tired  of  writing  on  this  subject.  I 
shall  await  with  great  eagerness  the  volume  you  have  promised  us. 
My  regret  at  not  being  able  to  come  to  America  to  our  Class  reunion 


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last  June  will  always  remain;  hence  the  published  account  of  the 
anniversary  will  be  the  more  valued.  This  letter  brings  to  you, 
and  to  every  member  of  '87,  greetings  and  best  wishes  that  the 
coming  years  may  surpass  those  which  are  behind  us.  Also  that 
the  invisible  bonds  that  unite  our  Class  may  grow  stronger  and 
stronger  as  the  years  pass  by." 

His  letter  of  August  31,  1914,  contains  the  point  of  view  of 
an  American  living  in  Munich  toward  the  war  situation: 

"My  dear  George: 

"Since  the  war  began,  a  month  ago,  I  have  been  working  ten 
hours  daily  in  assisting  Americans  here  who  have  had  difficulties 
about  getting  money  on  letters  of  credit,  etc.,  and  as  treasurer  of 
the  American  Relief  Fund  in  Munich,  which  has  raised  $15,000  to 
assist  Americans  and  for  Red  Cross  work.  The  American  Church 
is  feeding  daily  100  poor  children  whose  fathers  are  gone  to  war. 
With  other  Yale  men  here  at  this  time,  we  have  got  in  some  good 
work. 

"My  sympathy  for  this  people  and  my  admiration  is  unbounded. 
This  trial,  fighting  the  fight  of  Europe  against  the  Slav  Colossus 
and  at  the  same  time  to  fight  England  and  France,  is  a  test  that 
no  nation  has  ever  endured.  And  they  will  conquer  all  Europe 
if  that  should  be  necessary.  They  have  the  spirit,  the  courage, 
and  the  army  that  has  an  unconquerable  spirit.  It  has  been  the 
experience  of  a  lifetime  to  be  here  and  to  help  this  brave  people 
with  what  sympathy  I  can  offer.  Six  years'  residence  has  endeared 
this  people  to  me  and  now  I  appreciate  them  through  and  through. 
They  are  the  real  stuff,  beside  which  the  commercialism  of  England 
at  this  time  dwindles  to  insignificance.  England  has  taken  a  busi- 
ness chance  in  this  war  and  she  has  much  to  lose." 

The  American  Relief  Association  mentioned  above  issued  this 
fall  sixteen  special  numbers  of  their  quarterly  publication,  Ameri- 
can Notes  in  Munich,  for  the  purpose  of  informing  Americans  as 
to  conditions.  Bissell  is  manager  of  this  publication  and  also  edited 
one  of  the  special  numbers. 

He  is  an  Independent  Republican;  vestryman  and  treasurer  of 
the  Church  of  the  Ascension  (Episcopal),  Munich,  and  director 


150  BIOGRAPHIES 


of  the  American  Church  Library  and  Reading  Room.  He  is  a 
member  of  several  physics  and  chemical  societies,  Sigma  Xi,  the 
New  Hampshire  Chapter  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  and 
various  golf  and  country  clubs. 

He  was  married  July  10,  1905,  in  the  chapel  of  St.  Paul's  School, 
Concord,  N.  H.,  to  Jane  Harriet,  daughter  of  John  Elijah  White, 
a  flour  merchant,  who  was  later  connected  with  the  Treasury  De- 
partment at  Washington,  and  Harriet  Jane  (Coit)  White,  and 
niece  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  Augustus  Coit,  Hon.  LL.D.  Yale  '91. 
Mrs.  Bissell  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Peregrine  White,  the  first 
child  born  after  the  landing  of  the  Pilgrims.  They  have  two  sons: 

Leslie  Dayton,  Jr.,  born  November  3,  1910,  in  Munich,  Germany. 

James  Milnor  Coit,  born  November  17,  1912,  in  Munich,  Ger- 
many. 


Edward  Lydston  Bliss,  M.D. 

Medical  Missionary,  Shaowu,  via  Foochow,  China 
Permanent  mail  address,  10  Allen  Street,  Newburyport,  Mass. 

Edward  L.  Bliss  is  a  son  of  Charles  Henry  Bliss  and  Emily 
Augusta  (Lydston)  Bliss,  who  were  married  in  1860,  and  had 
seven  other  children,  four  daughters  and  three  sons:  Clara  Amity 
Bliss,  Mount  Holyoke  '88,  Charles  A.  Bliss,  Maria  Washburn 
Bliss,  Mount  Holyoke  '92,  M.  D.  Woman's  Medical  College,  Phila- 
delphia, '04,  Ernest  W.  Bliss,  Charlotte  Bliss  (died  in  1871), 
George  H.  Bliss  and  Mary  Campbell  Bliss,  Wellesley  '99,  M.A. 
'04.  Charles  Henry  Bliss  was  born  in  Putney,  Vt.,  December  19, 
1838,  and  died  in  February,  1896,  in  Concord,  N.  H.  From  1838 
to  1860  he  resided  in  Putney  and  from  the  latter  date  until  his 
death  he  made  his  home  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  where  he  served 
six  terms  on  the  school  committee  and  one  term  as  alderman. 
Emily  Augusta  (Lydston)  Bliss  was  born  July  2,  1838,  in  New- 
buryport, Mass.,  and  in  August,  1913,  was  residing  in  the  same 
town.  She  is  of  English  ancestry,  as  was  her  husband. 

Bliss  was  born  December  10,  1865,  in  Newburyport,  Mass., 
where  he  received  his  early  education  and  his  preparation  for 
college  in  the  public  schools.  At  Yale  he  received  an  oration 


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Junior  and  a  high  oration  Senior  appointment,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Pundit  Club.     He  received  an  election  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  he  spent  two  years  in  teaching  at  Granby, 
Mass.,  and  the  Harvard  School,  Chicago,  and  in  1889  entered  the 
Yale  Medical  School,  where  he  completed  the  work  for  his  degree 
in  two  years.  He  then  served  as  assistant  in  chemistry  in  the  Yale 
Medical  School,  but  in  1892  sailed  for  China  as  a  medical  mission- 
ary under  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Mis- 
sions (Congregational),  and  since  1893  he  has  been  located  in 
Shaowu.  Of  his  work  there  he  writes: 

"Within  a  few  months  after  leaving  the  Yale  Medical  School 
(1892),  I  came  to  Shaowu,  a  city  in  the  interior  of  China,  to  do 
medical  missionary  work,  and,  except  for  two  furloughs  in  the 
United  States,  I  have  been  located  here  ever  since. 

"Soon  after  my  arrival  here  I  opened  a  dispensary  at  my  resi- 
dence; several  years  later  I  built  a  hospital  to  which  additions  have 
been  made   from  time  to  time.      It   has   twenty-six   beds   with   six 
private     rooms     for     the     better 
class.      Patients    have    increased 
from    a    few    visits    to    a    daily 

attendance   reaching   as   high   as  HPk 

one  hundred  and  thirty  at  the 
dispensary,  and  the  last  few 
months  the  hospital  has  been  full 
of  patients  and  we  have  been 
obliged  to  refuse  admittance  to 
applicants  for  lack  of  room. 

"This  is  the  only  hospital  for 
an  area  of  several  hundred 
square  miles  with  a  population 
of  more  than  two  millions.  Pa- 
tients come  six  days'  journey  to 
the  hospital. 

"During  these  years  I  have 
given  a  number  of  young  men 
such  training  in  western  medi- 
cine as  they  need  in  the  treat- 
ment of  the  ordinary  diseases 


• 


EDWARD  LYDSTON  BLISS 


152  BIOGRAPHIES 

here.  They  have  opened  drug  stores  at  various  centers.  For  these 
drug  stores  I  have  imported  medicines  in  large  quantities  from 
Europe  and  America.  This  has  made  it  possible  to  render  aid  to 
many  times  as  many  sick  as  have  been  treated  at  the  hospital. 

"It  is  my  hope  that  sometime  there  will  be  sufficient  funds  to  build 
and  equip  a  good  hospital  at  Shaowu  that  will  have  a  large  share 
in  hastening  the  day  of  modern  medicine  in  China.  But  the  chief 
aim  of  our  medical  work  is  to  make  China  Christian." 

Bliss  professes  himself  as  much  interested  in  the  development  of 
the  Progressive  party  and  says  that  he  would  vote  with  it  if  he  had 
the  opportunity.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church. 

He  was  married  in  Foochow,  China,,  September  22,  1902,  to 
Minnie  May,  daughter  of  Simon  Berts,  a  farmer  of  Irvington, 
Nebr.,  and  Elizabeth  Evelyn  (Hine)  Borts.  They  have  three 
children : 

Ruth  Marian,  born  September  21,  1904,  in  Shaowu,  China. 

Elizabeth  Hine,  born  February  2,  1908,  in  Shaowu,  China. 

Edward  Lydston,  Jr.,  born  July  30,  1912,  in  Foochow,  China. 


*Allan  Blair  Bonar,  M.D. 

Died  August  14,  1913 

Allan  B.  Bonar,  son  of  Rev.  James  Blair  Bonar,  B.A.  Wabash 
'53,  and  Elizabeth  L.  (Geer)  Bonar,  was  born  in  Montreal,  Canada, 
August  20,  1863.  Six  years  later  his  father  was  called  to  the 
Congregational  Church  in  New  Milford,  Conn.,  and  continued  there 
until  1883. 

Bonar  was  prepared  at  Phillips  Andover  and  in  college  received 
a  second  colloquy  Junior  appointment.  After  graduation  from  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  in  1890,  and  practice  in  the 
Vanderbilt  Clinic  and  Roosevelt  Hospital,  New  York,  he  was  in 
practice  for  two  years  in  Tacoma,  Wash.,  and  for  about  the  same 
time  in  Marquette,  Mich.  From  1895  to  1901  he  was  in  New 
York  City,  where  he  was  clinical  assistant  in  neurology  in  the 
Vanderbilt  Clinic,  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  for  one 
year  resident  physician  at  the  Incurable  Hospital  on  Blackwell's 
Island,  and  for  some  time  in  general  practice.  He  also  served  as 


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153 


clinical  assistant  in  the  throat  and  nose  department  of  the  St. 
Bartholomew  Clinic.  In  1898  he  traveled  extensively  abroad  with 
a  patient.  In  June,,  1901,  he  be- 
came medical  examiner  and  dis- 
trict inspector  for  the  Equitable 
Life  Assurance  Society  in  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  and  in  May,  1907,  was 
transferred  to  a  similar  position 
in  Memphis,  Tenn.  At  the  time 
of  his  decease  he  was  president 
and  manager  of  the  Southern 
Merchandise  &  Brokerage  Com- 
pany, commission  brokers,  of 
Memphis,  Tenn.  He  died  Au- 
gust 14,  1913,  in  Detroit,  Mich., 
of  cirrhosis  of  the  liver. 

He  was  the  author  of  a  num- 
ber of  articles  on  medical  sub- 
jects published  in  the  Medical 
News  and  the  Journal  of  Mental 
and  Nervous  Diseases,  and  pre- 
pared the  part  devoted  to  neurol- 
ogy and  nervous  diseases  in 
Butler's  "Medical  Diagnosis." 

He  was  married  September  5,  1901,  in  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  to 
Caroline  A.,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Barbara  Busick,  of  New  York 
City. 

*Dwight  Eliot  Bowers 

Died  April  9,  190T 

Dwight  E.  Bowers  was  a  son  of  Caleb  Bailey  and  Fannie  Maria 
(Cutler)  Bowers.  His  first  paternal  ancestor  emigrated  from  Eng- 
land to  Scituate,  in  1637.  He  settled  in  Plymouth,  and  later  in 
Cambridge,  in  1639.  Several  of  his  descendants  served  in  the 
Colonial  and  Revolutionary  wars.  Caleb  B.  Bowers,  though  not  a 
college  graduate,  was  a  man  of  broad  culture  and  of  unusual  intel- 
lectual acquirements,  a  school-teacher  for  many  years,  later  an 
official  in  the  post  office  in  Washington,  and  collector  of  internal 


ALLAN  BLAIR  BOXAR 


154 


BIOGRAPHIES 


DWIGHT    EI.IOT    BOWERS 


revenue  in  Connecticut  after  the  war.  He  served  three  years  in 
the  state  senate  of  Connecticut  and  was  chosen  president  pro  tern,  of 
that  body.  He  was  for  a  brief  period,  during  the  absence  of  both 
governor  and  lieutenant  governor,  the  acting  governor  of  the 
state.  He  removed  to  New  Haven  for  the  education  of  his  chil- 
dren, where  he  was  an  underwriter  of  insurance.  The  Cutler 
family,  of  similar  Puritan  descent,  are  derived  from  John  Cutler, 
who  settled  in  Hingham,  Mass.,  in  1637.  Two  other  sons  were  also 
graduated  at  Yale,  William  Cutler  Bowers,  '74,  and  Edward 
Augustus  Bowers,  '79. 

Bowers  was  born  in  Claremont,  N.  H.,  March  18,  1866,  but  the 
following  year  the  family  moved  to  New  Haven,  where  he  lived 
throughout  his  life  and  was  closely  identified  with  the  varied 
interests  of  the  city.  He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School  and  in  college  received  a  first  colloquy  Junior  appointment. 

For  many  years  he  had  taken  special  interest  in  matters  of  local 
history,  and  the  year  of  his  graduation,  and  for  a  number  of  years 


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after,  was  librarian  and  curator  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  His- 
torical Society.  Since  then,  as  one  of  its  directors,  he  had  devoted 
much  time  to  the  arrangement  of  the  library.  He  was  also  a 
member  of  the  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Society 
and  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
was  writing  a  genealogical  history. 

In  April,  1889,  he  formed  with  his  father  the  insurance  firm  of 
C.  B.  Bowers  &  Son,  and  previous  to  1900  was  for  a  number  of 
years  secretary  of  the  New  Haven  Fire  Underwriters  Association. 
He  enjoyed  opportunities  of  extensive  travel  in  Europe  and  the 
West  Indies. 

In  1891  he  entered  the  Junior  Class  of  the  Yale  Law  School, 
and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1893.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  the  same  year  and  thereafter  practiced  his  profession  in  New 
Haven. 

By  appointment  of  the  governor  in  1899,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Connecticut  Commission  of  Public  Records,  and  he  prepared  a 
considerable  part  of  its  first  report,  continuing  to  serve  until  the 
termination  of  the  commission  in  1903. 

In  1891  he  joined  the  Connecticut  National  Guard  as  a  private 
in  the  New  Haven  Grays,  and  during  sixteen  years  of  service  was 
many  times  promoted,  retiring  shortly  before  his  decease  from  the 
office  of  paymaster  of  the  Second  Regiment,  with  the  rank  of 
captain. 

He  died  suddenly  of  meningitis  at  his  home  in  New  Haven, 
April  9,  1907. 

He  was  not  married. 

Arthur  Wolfe  Brady 

President  and  General  Counsel  of  the  Union  Traction  Company  of  Indiana, 

Anderson,   Ind. 

Residence,  824  West  Eighth  Street,  Anderson,  Ind. 

Arthur  W.  Brady  is  a  son  of  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Emme- 
line  (Wolfe)  Brady,  who  were  married  in  1864,  and  had  two 
other  children:  Elizabeth  (Brady)  Ball  and  Winifred  (Brady) 
Adams.  Thomas  Jefferson  Brady  was  born  February  12,  1839,  in 
Muncie,  Ind.,  and  died  April  22,  1904,  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J.  His 


156  BIOGRAPHIES 


paternal  ancestors  came  from  Ireland  and  his  maternal  ancestors 
came  from  England  to  Maryland  in  the  eighteenth  century.  He 
attended  Asbury  College,  now  DePauw  University,  Greencastle, 
Ind.,  but  did  not  graduate.  He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Brady 
&  Mellett,  publishing  the  Muncie  Times,  during  the  seventies.  He 
was  captain,  major,  colonel  and  brevet-brigadier  general,  United 
States  Volunteers,  during  the  Civil  War,  and  later  was  supervisor 
of  internal  revenue  and  second  assistant  postmaster-general  and 
consul  at  the  Island  of  St.  Thomas.  Emmeline  (Wolfe)  Brady 
was  born  October  17,  1841,  in  Westfield,  Ohio,  and  died  in  Muncie, 
Ind.,  December  2,  1884.  On  the  paternal  side  she  was  of  German 
descent  and  on  the  maternal  side  of  French  ancestry. 

Brady  was  born  January  13,  1865,  in  Muncie,  Ind.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  Muncie,  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  and  in  New 
Preston,  Conn.  He  was  prepared  at  the  private  home  school  of 
Rev.  Henry  Upson,  of  New  Preston.  In  college  he  received  a 
Junior  dispute  appointment  and  the  Cobden  Club  medal,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Class  Supper  Committee.  He  writes : 

"In  the  fall  of  1887  I  entered  the  law  office  of  Bell  &  Morris 
at  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  where  I  read  law  until  the  fall  of  1888,  when 
I  entered  the  Senior  Class  in  the  law  school  of  the  University  of 
Michigan,  graduating  in  June,  1889.  I  returned  to  Muncie,  Ind., 
my  old  home,  and  entered  on  the  practice  of  law.  I  took  some 
interest  in  politics  as  a  Democrat,  but  was,  of  course,  shelved  as  a 
'regular'  in  1896,  when  I  was  a  'Gold  Democrat.'  Since  that  time 
I  have  been  quite  irregular,  so  far  as  party  politics  are  concerned. 
Muncie  was  normally  Republican  by  a  large  majority,  but  I  was 
elected  mayor  on  the  Democratic  ticket  in  1891,  and  served  until 
the  fall  of  1894.  In  1893,  I  entered  into  law  partnership  with 
Rollin  Warner,  of  Muncie,  and  continued  in  partnership  with  him 
under  the  firm  name  of  Warner  &  Brady  until  1902,  when  I  moved 
to  Indianapolis,  continuing  in  the  practice  of  law. 

"My  associations  at  Indianapolis  were  largely  with  the  system  of 
street  and  interurban  railroad  lines  of  the  Union  Traction  Com- 
pany of  Indiana,  and  especially  with  the  construction  of  the  Indian- 
apolis northern  branch  of  that  system,  extending  from  Indianapolis 
northward  to  Logansport  and  other  points.  In  the  fall  of  1903  I 
was  elected  a  vice-president  of  the  Indiana  Union  Traction  Com- 


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ARTHUR    WOLFE    BRADY 

pany,  then  operating  the  system,  and  became  connected  with  the 
executive  and  operating  departments  of  the  company,  in  addition  to 
the  legal  department.  In  the  fall  of  1904  I  was  elected  president, 
as  well  as  general  counsel,  which  positions  I  still  hold,  and  moved 
to  Anderson,  Ind.,  where  the  principal  office  of  the  company  is. 
The  name  of  the  company  is  now  the  Union  Traction  Company  of 
Indiana,  and  it  operates  about  425  miles  of  street  and  interurban 
railroad,  all  in  Indiana. 

"My  travels,  except  in  connection  with  business,  have  not  been 
extensive,  and  have  been  confined  to  the  United  States.  In  1900 
I  spent  a  month  or  two  in  the  Rocky  Mountains — first  in  Yellow- 
stone Park  and  afterwards  in  Idaho — where  I  enjoyed  a  big  game 
hunt  that  had  long  been  looked  forward  to.  In  1901  I  spent  some 
weeks  on  a  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon  of  the  Colorado  and  other 
points  in  the  Southwest,  including  villages  of  the  Hopi  or  Moqui 
Indians  at  the  time  of  their  annual  'Snake  Dance/  I  visited  some 
of  the  villages  of  the  Pueblos  again  a  few  years  ago.  I  have  been 
much  interested  in  these  remarkable  Indians. 


168  BIOGRAPHIES 


"The  interurban  railroads  of  the  Central  West  are  in  process  of 
development,  and  close  attention  to  their  operations  is  required  of 
any  one  responsible  for  the  outcome.  The  result  is  that  I  have  not 
found  myself  able  to  give  great  attention  to  outside  pursuits. 

"It  is  perhaps  needless  for  a  graduate  of  Yale  to  say  that  he 
has  devoted  what  time  he  could  to  the  reading  of  good  literature. 
While  I  have  not  neglected  general  literature,  much  of  my  reading 
has  been  along  lines  connected  with  my  profession  and  with  rail- 
road work.  I  have  also  taken  considerable  interest  in  Western 
history,  particularly  that  of  the  Central  West,  and  in  the  history 
and  life  of  the  American  Indian.  I  am  engaged  in  editing  for  the 
Indiana  Historical  Society  the  unpublished  diary  of  two  Moravian 
missionaries  who  came  to  Indiana  in  the  first  decade  of  the  nine- 
teenth century  and  spent  several  years  in  a  fruitless  effort  to  induce 
the  Indians  to  become  civilized  and  Christians.  The  mission  was 
finally  broken  up  by  the  machinations  of  the  Prophet,  Tecumseh's 
brother,  and  it  is  believed  that  the  diary  will  be  found  to  have  some 
general  historical  importance  because  of  the  light  it  throws  on  the 
early  stages  of  Tecumseh's  attempt  to  stem  the  tide  of  westward 
emigration. 

"For  a  number  of  years  I  have  been  interested  in  prints,  etchings, 
etc.,  and  have  made  a  small  collection  of  prints  and  books  relating 
to  prints  which,  while  of  no  especial  value,  has  been  a  source  of 
considerable  pleasure  to  me. 

"I  have  taken  such  part  as  I  could  in  civic  movements  in  the 
communities  where  I  have  resided.  I  have  failed  to  do  much  in  this 
direction,  as  well  as  others,  that  I  wish  I  might  have  done.  On  the 
whole,  I  suppose  my  life  since  graduation  has  been  much  like 
that  of  others  of  my  classmates  who  have  been  compelled  to  devote 
themselves  to  professional  careers,  although  most  of  them  probably 
have  done  their  work  in  larger  communities  than  those  where  I 
have  done  the  greater  part  of  mine,  and  not  all  have  had  their 
professional  work  so  much  trenched  on  by  outside  pursuits  as  mine 
has  been  during  the  past  ten  years.  One  statement  I  ought  to  add — 
that,  while  conscious  of  the  limitations  of  and  imperfections  of 
the  college  course  of  our  day,  and  fully  recognizing  my  failure 
to  gain  during  my  four  years  at  New  Haven  all  that  I  might  have 
gained,  I  am  profoundly  grateful  for  what  Yale  College  did,  in 
fact,  do  for  me." 


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159 


Brady  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  Indianapolis,  the 
Country  Club  of  Anderson,  the  Indianapolis  and  the  American  Bar 
associations  and  various  commercial  and  social  clubs  of  mere  local 
importance.  He  is  a  Mason  and  a  Knight  of  Pythias.  He  was 
president  of  the  American  Electric  Railway  Association  in  1910-11. 

He  was  married  June  28,  1893,  at  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  to  Jane, 
daughter  of  Linley  and  Beulah  C.  Ninde.  She  died  November  17, 
1893.  He  was  again  married  December  18,  1901,  in  Muncie,  Ind., 
to  Caroline  Henderson,  daughter  of  James  and  Caroline  Jane 
(Foulke)  McCulloch,  of  Muncie.  They  have  two  children: 

George  Wolfe,  born  August  22,  1903,  in  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Arthur  Adam,  born  February  23,  1906,  in  Anderson,  Ind. 


*William  Sinclair  Brigham 

Died  May  23,  1906 


William  S.  Brigham,  son  of 
Henry  and  Mary  Brigham,  was 
born  in  Savannah,  Ga.,  May  1, 
1864.  Two  brothers,  Clayton 
Harcourt  Brigham  and  Harcourt 
Brigham,  were  graduated  at  Yale 
in  1888  and  1897  respectively. 
He  was  prepared  at  St.  Paul's 
School,  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Class  of  '86 
until  December,  1884.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  University  Club 
at  Yale. 

After  graduation  he  was  in  the 
office  of  the  A.  S.  Barnes  Pub- 
lishing House  in  New  York  City 
a  year,  and  was  then  a  grain 
broker  in  his  native  city  of 
Savannah  a  year  or  more.  Later 


WILLIAM   SINCLAIR   BRIGHAM 


160  BIOGRAPHIES 


he  became  a  member  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange,,  and  was 
subsequently  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Adams,  McNeill  &  Brigham 
(Adams  of  our  Class  being  senior  partner),  bankers  and  brokers, 
four  or  five  years.  He  was  afterwards  in  the  service  of  the  Con- 
solidated Exchange  and  Home  Life  Insurance  Company. 

He  resided  for  some  time  in  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  but  then  removed 
to  Murray  Hill,  N.  J.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal church. 

His  death  occurred,  after  an  operation  for  appendicitis,  at  the 
Dudley  Memorial  Hospital,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  May  23,  1906. 

He  was  married  April  26,  1894,  to  Heda  Forster,  daughter  of 
Carl  H.  and  Louise  Schultz.  They  had  two  daughters : 

Gertrude  Louise,  born  January  29,  1895. 

Helen  Sinclair,  born  —   — . 


Wilson  Brooks 

Great   Chief   of   Records    (National   Secretary),    Improved   Order   of   Red 
Men,  230  South  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago,  111. 

Residence,  11138  Western  Avenue,  Morgan  Park,  Chicago,  111. 

Wilson  Brooks  is  a  son  of  Rev.  William  Eustis  and  Angie  Rich- 
ardson (Wilson)  Brooks,  who  were  married  in  August,  1862,  and 
had  three  other  children,  two  sons  and  a  daughter:  William  Eustis 
Brooks,  Ida  May  Brooks  and  Clayton  Kingman  Brooks,  Colby  '98. 
William  E.  Brooks,  the  father,  was  born  June  6,  1835,  in  Kingfield, 
Maine,  and  graduated  at  Colby  College  in  1862,  and  from  the 
Yale  Divinity  School  in  1865.  He  served  in  the  Civil  War  during 
1862  as  captain  of  Company  E,  Sixteenth  Maine,  and  then  began 
preaching.  His  pastorates  were  in  Connecticut,  Texas,  Illinois, 
Iowa  and  Michigan,  and  cover  the  whole  period  of  his  life-work 
except  the  years  from  1880  to  1885,  when  he  was  president  of 
Tillotson  Collegiate  and  Normal  Institute  in  Austin,  Texas.  In 
1890  he  received  the  degree  of  D.D.  at  Colby  College.  He  died  in 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  on  December  26,  1906.  His  ancestors  on  the 
paternal  side  came  from  the  north  of  Ireland  about  1740  and  on 
the  maternal  side  from  England  about  1630.  Angie  Richardson 
(Wilson)  Brooks  was  born  May  31,  1838,  in  Portland,  Maine,  and 


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161 


WILSOK  BROOKS 


died  in  October,  1908,  in  Benton  Harbor,  Mich.  Her  father's 
parents  came  to  this  country  about  1720,  and  her  mother's  ancestors 
landed  about  1670  and  settled  near  Dover,  N.  H. 

Brooks  was  born  in  Derby,  Conn.,  on  April  7,  1866.  His  boyhood 
was  spent  in  Clinton  and  West  Haven,  Conn.,  and  Austin,  Texas, 
and  he  prepared  himself  for  college. 

He  has  made  his  home  in  Chicago  continuously  since  graduation. 
From  1887  to  1891  his  chief  work  was  the  publishing  of  the  Chi- 
cago Railway  Red  Book,  and  then  for  several  years  he  was  in  the 
cement  contracting  business,  being  secretary  of  the  company.  In 
the  fall  of  1890  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Illinois  legisla- 
ture as  a  Republican,  running  twelve  hundred  votes  ahead  of  his 
ticket.  In  1894  he  became  secretary  of  the  Tecumseh  Mutual  Life 
Association,  which  position  he  held  until  1901.  In  September, 
1900,  he  was  elected  Great  Chief  of  Records  of  the  Great  Council 
of  the  United  States,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  and  has  con- 
tinued in  this  office.  He  is  also  secretary  and  a  director  of  the 


162  BIOGRAPHIES 


Resilient  Wheel  Company,  a  concern  which  is  placing  upon  the 
market  a  resilient  wheel  intended  to  do  away  with  pneumatic  tires, 
punctures,  blow-outs,  etc. 

In  his  official  capacity  as  a  Great  Chief  of  the  Red  Men,  Brooks 
has- visited  every  state  in  the  Union.  In  1906  he  visited  Panama 
and  established  the  order  in  the  Canal  Zone.  Returning  on  the 
Pacific  Ocean,  he  landed  at  Salina  Cruz,  Mexico,  and  traveled  by 
rail  through  Mexico. 

He  writes:  "I  get  my  recreation  in  my  chickens.  Have  over 
1,000,  and  without  doubt  the  most  up-to-date  hennery  in  the  United 
States.  This  is  an  egotistical  statement,  but  nevertheless  true. 
Also  have  three  dogs,  four  cats,  numerous  stray  cats,  a  garden, 
and  an  automobile.  Work  all  the  time  and  get  mighty  little  sleep." 

Brooks  is  a  Progressive  and  acted  as  chief  assistant  secretary  of 
the  Progressive  National  Convention  in  Chicago  in  1912.  In  addi- 
tion to  his  membership  in  the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  where  he 
has  held  every  office  in  the  local  tribe  and  several  in  the  state 
organization,  he  says  that  he  is  an  "ordinary  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and 
Masonic  bodies." 

He  was  married  June  21,  1894,  in  Austin,  Texas,  to  Mary  Town- 
send,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Andrew  and  Emily  C.  (Townsend) 
Baker.  They  have  had  three  children : 

Frederick  Wiley,  born  March  8,  1904,  died  December  26,  1910. 

Joseph  Baker,  born  September  20,   1905. 

William  Newton,  born  January  3,  1907. 


Carleton  Lewis  Brownson,  Ph.D. 

Dean  of  Faculty,  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  St.  Nicholas  Terrace, 

New  York  City 

Residence,  164  West  Seventy-fourth  Street,  New  York  City 

Carleton  L.  Brownson  is  a  son  of  Dr.  William  Greene  and  Caro- 
line Louise  (Barstow)  Brownson,  who  were  married  September 
5,  1854,  and  had  four  other  children,  three  sons  and  a  daughter: 
William  Clarence  Brownson,  M.  D.  New  York  University  '78, 
Frances  M.  (Brownson)  Beers,  Wendell  Greene  Brownson,  Yale 


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163 


CARLETON   LEWIS    BROWXSON 


'93,  LL.B.  '95,  and  Carl  Ward  Brownson  (died  in  December, 
1865).  William  G.  Brownson  was  born  August  6,  1830,  in  Peter- 
boro,  N.  Y.,  of  English  parentage,  his  ancestors  having  settled  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1640-50.  He  was  educated  at  the  New  York 
State  Normal  School,  and  received  an  honorary  M.A.  degree  from 
Hamilton  College  in  1864,  and  an  M.D.  degree  from  New  York 
University  in  1865.  He  served  as  surgeon  in  the  Civil  War  during 
1864-65,  and  then  practiced  his  profession  in  New  Canaan,  Conn., 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  January  3,  1899,  in  Noroton,  Conn. 
He  was  president  of  the  Connecticut  Medical  Society  and  a  fellow 
of  the  American  Medical  Association.  His  wife,  Caroline  Louise 
Barstow,  also  of  New  England  colonial  stock,  was  born  September 
1,  1831,  in  Oswego,  N.  Y. 

Brownson  was  born  January  19,  1866,  in  New  Canaan,  Conn., 
where  he  spent  his  boyhood,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Wilton  (Conn.)  Academy.  At  Yale  he  received  a  Berkeley  premium 
of  second  grade  in  Latin  composition,  a  third  premium  in  English 


164  BIOGRAPHIES 


composition,,  philosophical  oration  appointments  for  the  entire 
course,  one-year  honors  in  English,  and  was  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon,  the  Pundit  Club  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Class  Day  Committee  and  delivered  the  Latin 
salutatory  at  graduation. 

From  1887  to  1890  he  was  at  Yale  as  a  graduate  student,  two 
years  as  Douglas  Fellow,  and  the  last  year  as  tutor  in  Latin  and 
Greek.  The  two  years  following  he  was  in  Europe  studying  at 
the  American  School  for  Classical  Studies,  at  Athens,  under  an 
appointment  to  the  Soldiers'  Memorial  Fellowship,  and  during  the 
summers  at  Berlin  and  Munich.  He  was  tutor  and  instructor  in 
Latin  and  Greek  at  Yale  from  the  fall  of  1892  until  1897,  when 
he  became  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  the  College  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  where  he  has  served  successively  in  the  positions  of 
instructor,  assistant  professor,  professor  and  dean  of  faculty. 

He  writes:  "My  particular  interest  is  reading  past,  and  watching 
present,  history.  I  am  a  confirmed  optimist,  but  I  should  like  to 
live  for  a  little  while  in  the  quieter  world  of  the  eighties.  I  think 
I  have  never  been  so  good  an  American  as  I  am  now,  but  I  realize 
now  (or  imagine  that  I  do)  that  a  sound  democracy  is  not,  as  I  once 
thought,  a  thing  to  be  inherited  as  a  part  of  one's  patrimony,  but  a 
thing  to  be  worked  for  continually  and  to  be  continually  remade. 
I  expect  to  live  to  see  the  almost  complete  passing  of  the  churches, 
and  I  wonder  whether  educational  and  ethical  culture  can  take  their 
place.  One  trouble  is  that  the  education  of  today  lays  continually 
less  emphasis  upon  the  development  of  character  and  continually 
more  upon  fitting  a  man  for  some  special  work.  However,  the 
influences  that  would  lead  him  to  work  for  society,  as  well  as  for 
himself,  were  never  so  strong  as  they  are  today. 

"Along  with  all  this  speculation  there  are  one  or  two  things  that 
I  am  sure  of, — that  my  connection  with  Yale  is  about  the  best  pos- 
session that  I  have,  and  that  the  Class  of  '87  wears  better  than 
any  crowd  I  ever  knew  or  ever  expect  to  know." 

Brownson  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  at  Yale  in  1897.  He  is 
a  Progressive  in  politics.  He  is  a  Congregationalist,  a  member  of 
the  American  Philological  Association,  the  Archaeological  Institute 
of  America,  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Alumni  Association  of  New  York  and 
the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Association  of  New  York. 


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He  was  married  December  28,  1892,  in  Boston,  Mass.,  to  Emma 
Josephine,  daughter  of  Whipple  N.  and  Lucinda  (Aldridge) 
Potter.  They  have  had  one  child: 

Katherine,  born  February  3,  and  died  February  5,  1895. 


Edward  Lathrop  Burke 

President  of  the  Kent  &  Burke  Company,  813  Omaha  National  Bank 
Building,  Omaha,  Nebr. 

Edward  L.  Burke  is  a  son  of  John  Edmund  and  Emily 
Francis  (Trowb ridge)  Burke,  who  were  married  February  9,  1857, 
and  had  two  other  children,  daughters:  Stella  Margaret  (Burke) 
Lunt  and  Marion  Burke,  B.A.  Vassar  '81,  M.D.  Woman's  Medical 
College  '95.  John  E.  Burke  was  of  Irish  ancestry,  his  grandfather, 
John  Burke,  having  come  from  County  Clare,  Ireland,  about  1810. 
He  settled  first  in  New  York  City,  but  later  moved  to  Silver  Lake, 
Pa.  Our  classmate's  father  was  born  October  31,  1830,  in  New 
York  City,  lived  in  Waverly,  Iowa,  from  1858  to  1874,  and  in 
Chicago  and  Evanston,  111.,  until  his  death  on  November  18,  1906. 
He  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Hamilton  College  in 
1855  and  later  took  a  law  course.  He  followed  this  profession  and 
served  in  the  Iowa  legislature  in  1863-64,  was  a  state  senator  in 
1867-68,  district  attorney  for  the  judicial  district  in  which  he 
resided  for  five  years  and  assistant  district  attorney  at  Chicago  in 
1875-76.  Emily  Francis  (Trowbridge)  Burke  was  born  January 
3,  1836,  in  Homer,  N.  Y.,  and  was  educated  at  the  academy  in  that 
town  and  at  Elmira  Female  Seminary,  where  she  was  graduated  in 
1853.  Her  first  Trowbridge  ancestor  in  this  country  came  to 
America  from  Taunton,  England,  in  1636,  settled  in  Dorchester, 
Mass.,  but  soon  removed  to  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Burke  was  born  in  Waverly,  Iowa,  December  14,  1864.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  there  and  near  Chicago,  where  he  prepared  at 
the  North  Division  High  School  and  Fessenden's  North  Side  Pre- 
paratory School.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  University 
Football  Team  in  1885  and  1886,  the  Class  Crew,  and  was  a  sub- 
stitute on  the  Varsity  Crew.  He  received  second  dispute  appoint- 
ments, was  a  member  of  the  Junior  Prom  Committee,  He  Boule  and 
Psi  Upsilon.  For  about  six  months  after  graduation  he  was  engaged 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


EDWARD   LATHROP    BURKE 


in  the  lumber  business  in  Evanston,  111.,  and  then  went  to  Genoa, 
Nebr.,  where  he  dealt  in  live  stock,  grain  and  land,  in  partnership 
with  his  classmate,  Kent,  under  the  firm  name  of  Kent  &  Burke 
Company.  In  1912  they  removed  their  offices  to  the  Omaha 
National  Bank  Building,  Omaha,  Nebr.  He  is  a  director  of  the 
United  States  National  Bank  and  the  United  States  Trust  Com- 
pany of  Omaha,  and  vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  Genoa 
National  Bank. 

He  traveled  in  England  in  1892,  Alaska  and  Canada  in  1898,  and 
the  Hawaiian  Islands  in  1912.  He  is  independent  in  politics,  a 
member  of  the  Union  League  Club  of  Chicago,  111.,  and  the  Cole- 
man  Lake  Club,  Coleman  Lake,  Wis.,  and  president  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association  of  Nebraska. 

He  gives  the  following  list  of  his  reading:  "Billy  Phelps'  'Dash 
for  the  Pole';  Madison  Grant's  'Vanishing  Moose';  Fred  Hill's 
entire  works,  including  'Tales  Out  of  Court'  in  the  last  Outlook; 
Billy  Kent's  and  Copley's  speeches  in  Congress;  George  Hill's 


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Class  Letters."  He  also  acknowledges  that  his  aims  are  "very 
bad/'  which  accounts  for  his  missing  a  big  buck  in  northern 
Michigan  last  fall. 

He  was  married  June  23,  1898,  in  Kentfield,  Calif.,  to  Mary 
Button,  daughter  of  Martin  Jerome  Stearns,  a  farmer,  of  Arcade, 
N.  Y.,  and  Maria  (Button)  Stearns.  Mrs.  Burke  is  a  cousin  of 
William  Kent,  '87.  They  have  two  children: 

Emily  Trowbridge,  born  April  4,  1899. 

Edward  Lathrop,  Jr.,  born  June  12,  1902. 


William  Savage  Burns 

209  Liberty  Street,  Bath,  N.  Y. 

William  S.  Burns  is  a  son  of  William  Stewart  and  Sophie 
Lake  (Savage)  Burns,  who  were  married  November  24,  1863,  and 
had  three  other  children,  two  sons  and  a  daughter:  Charles  Clarke 
Burns  (died  in  1870  in  Litchfield,  111.),  Sophie  Fanny  Burns  and 
Edward  Burt  Burns.  William  Stewart  Burns  was  born  November 
24,  1833,  in  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  and  after  1868  made  his  home  in  Bath, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  died  January  16,  1911.  His  father  was  from  the 
north  of  Ireland  and  his  mother  from  Scotland.  He  was  a  civil 
engineer  in  early  life  but  in  1868  became  bookkeeper  and  confi- 
dential clerk  to  John  &  Ira  Bavenport,  real  estate  dealers,  and 
continued  in  this  position  until  1905.  He  served  three  years  in  the 
Civil  War,  entering  as  second  lieutenant  in  the  Fourth  (Union)  Mis- 
souri Cavalry,  rising  to  the  rank  of  captain,  and  also  serving  as 
acting  assistant  inspector  general,  Right  Wing,  Sixteenth  Army 
Corps.  He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  of  the  village 
of  Bath  from  1877  to  1905.  Two  nephews  (sons  of  his  half- 
brother),  Charles  Cameron  Clarke  and  Francis  Cameron  Clarke, 
were  graduated  at  Yale  in  1883  and  1887,  respectively.  His  wife, 
Sophie  Lake  Savage,  was  born  August  27,  1839,  in  Monroe,  Mich., 
and  is  of  English  ancestry,  her  people  having  originally  settled 
at  Middletown,  Conn. 

Burns  was  born  at  Litchfield,  111.,  January  18,  1866,  but  his 
boyhood  was  spent  at  Bath,  N.  Y.,  where  he  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Haverling  High  School.  At  Yale  he  received  a  Berkeley 


168 


BIOGRAPHIES 


WILLIAM   SAVAGE    BURNS 


prize  of  the  first  grade  for  excellence  in  Latin  composition  in 
Freshman  year,  a  high  oration  Junior  and  an  oration  Senior  appoint- 
ment, and  an  election  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Pundit  Club  and  the  Chess  Club,  a  frequent  contributor  to  the 
Record,  and  a  Class  Historian. 

After  teaching  school  in  Bath,  and  in  Granville,  Ohio,  he  entered 
the  New  York  State  Library  School,  in  Albany,  graduating  in  1891 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Library  Science.  He  was  for  a 
time  librarian  of  the  State  Normal  School  at  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  and 
was  then  for  three  years  in  the  State  Library  at  Albany.  From 
1895  to  1907  he  was  a  cataloguer  and  indexer  in  the  office  of  the 
superintendent  of  documents  (a  branch  of  the  government  printing 
office),  in  Washington.  He  then  resigned  and  returned  to  Bath, 
where  he  has  since  lived,  without  occupation,  trying  to  regain  his 
health.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Davenport  Library  of  Bath. 

He  attends  the  Presbyterian  church  and  politically  is  inde- 
pendent. He  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  American 


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Library  Association  and  of  the  District  of  Columbia  Library  Asso- 
ciation, and  was  treasurer  of  the  latter  in  1904  and  1905.  He 
compiled  the  very  complete  bibliography  of  the  Class  printed  in  the 
Vicennial  Record  and  assisted  in  the  compilation  of  the  publica- 
tions of  the  Class  which  is  printed  in  this  volume. 
He  has  not  married. 


Ernest  Leroy  Caldwell 

Teacher 
Residence,  11  Jenison  Street,  Newtonville,  Mass. 

Ernest  L.  Caldwell  is  a  son  of  Woodruff  Caldwell,  of  West  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  and  Abigail  (Brown)  Caldwell,  who  were  married  in 
1856  and  had  two  other  sons,  Harry  and  Frank  Caldwell.  Mrs. 
Caldwell  was  born  July  2,  1836,  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  and  died 
January  10,  1904,  in  Windsor. 

Caldwell  was  born  July  12,  1858,  in  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  resided 
there  until  after  his  college  course  was  completed.  He  prepared 
at  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Public  High  School,  and  entered  Harvard 
in  the  Class  of  '86,  but  changed  to  Yale,  joining  '87  at  the  beginning 
of  its  course.  He  rowed  stroke  on  the  University  and  Class  crews 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Class  Day  Committee,  Pundit  Club, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head. 

After  two  years  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  he  taught  in  New 
York  until  1891,  when  he  became  instructor  in  mathematics  in  the 
Academy  of  the  University  of  Chicago  at  Morgan  Park,  111.  He 
filled  this  position  until  1905,  when  the  university  transferred  him 
to  similar  duties  in  its  School  of  Education,  known  as  the  Univer- 
sity High  School,  where  he  continued  until  June,  1914.  He  writes: 

"It  would  please  me  a  whole  lot  if  I  could  in  some  way  write  a 
word  or  two  that  would  be  a  letter  to  every  fellow  in  the  Class. 
But  I  simply  don't  know  how.  I  am  never  short  on  Class  spirit, 
and  want  always  to  be  one  of  the  '87  bunch,  but  somehow  or  other, 
I  have  failed  to  be  with  you  at  the  reunions  to  share  in  the  corking 
good  times  you  have.  I  live  in  the  hope  of  better  luck  next  time. 
Before  I  came  West  I  used  to  see  some  of  the  fellows  often,  and 
those  were  great  times.  Out  here  in  this  burg,  there  isn't  one  '87 


170 


BIOGRAPHIES 


ERNEST  LEROY  CALDWELL 


man.  Billy  Kent  used  to  live  here,  but  he  couldn't  stand  it  any 
longer,  and  left,  and  now  the  town  is  going  to  the  dogs  again.  It 
is  worse  than  ever.  I  would  like  to  quit  it  and  get  back  East  again 
where  I  could  see  an  '87  man  once  in  a  while.  Then,  too,  Stuart 
will  enter  Yale  next  fall — at  least  he  will  be  ready  then. 

"I  take  it  you  have  never  spent  a  summer  in  the  woods.  You 
ought  to  try  it  once;  it  is  a  great  life  preserver,  a  sort  of  asylum 
for  the  sane.  It  saved  my  life  last  winter.  Take  a  camera,  a  little 
fishing  outfit,  one  of  Abercrombie  &  Fitch's  light  Baker  tents  and 
aluminum  cooking  outfits  and  hike  through  the  wilds  of  Northern 
Maine  or  the  Adirondacks,  you  and  your  wife,  and  you  will  do  it 
every  summer.  It  is  a  very  inexpensive  way  of  spending  the  sum- 
mer when  you  know  how  to  get  on  without  a  guide.  The  ideal 
way  is  to  rent  or  steal  a  cabin,  accessible  to  a  number  of  lakes,  and 
make  trips  requiring  you  to  pack  canoe  and  tent  and  grub,  etc., 
over  the  trail.  Wait  until  after  the  mosquitoes  are  gone  before 
making  the  trips.  Try  it  some  time.  I  imagine,  however,  that  you 


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are  not  in  any  particular  need  of  any  health  tonic,  but — don't  wait 
until  you  are.     Too  many  do.     And  don't  go  without  your  wife." 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Hyde  Park  Baptist  Church  and  in  politics 
is  independent. 

He  was  married  on  March  22,  1894,  in  Morgan  Park,  111.,  to 
Mary  Freeman,  daughter  of  Dr.  Galusha  Anderson,  president  of 
Denison  and  the  old  Chicago  universities,  and  Mary  Eleanor 
(Roberts)  Anderson.  They  have  one  son: 

Stuart  Hill,  Andover  '14,  Yale  '17  S.,  born  October  1,  1896,  in 
Morgan  Park,  111. 


Middleton  Arnold  Caldwell 

Lawyer,  Yale  Club,  New  York  City 

Middleton  A.  Caldwell  is  a  son  of  the  late  John  and  Ellen  Lang- 
don  (Pickering)  Caldwell,  who  were  married  October  2,  1854.    John 


MIDDLETON  ARNOLD  CALDWELL 


172  BIOGRAPHIES 


Caldwell,  the  son  of  John  and  Eleanor  (Orne)  Caldwell  was  born 
November  24,  1826,  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  and  died  there  March 
6,  1904.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Ann  Cauldwell  (the  name  later 
came  to  be  spelled  Caldwell),  grandmother  of  Oliver  Cromwell,  and 
his  first  ancestor  to  come  to  this  country  was  John  Caldwell,  in 
1727.  He  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent.  Ellen  Langdon  (Picker- 
ing) Caldwell,  our  classmate's  mother,  was  born  September  26, 
1832,  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  the  daughter  of  Valentine  and  Ruth 
(Chase)  Pickering.  She  is  a  descendant  of  John  Pickering,  who 
came  from  England  about  1633,  and  was  a  prominent  early  settler 
of  the  town  of  Portsmouth,  to  which  he  afterwards  gave  large  tracts 
of  land;  also  of  Major  Ephraim  Pickering,  a  ''Son  of  Liberty"  and 
a  member  of  the  New  Hampshire  House  of  Representatives. 

Caldwell  was  born  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  April  4,  1863,  and 
prepared  for  college  at  Noble's  Classical  School,  Boston.  On  grad- 
uation, he  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School,  and  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1889.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  practiced 
law  in  Boston  until  January,  1891,  when  he  removed  to  New  York. 
Until  1905  he  was  an  attorney  for  the  New  York  Central  &  Hudson 
River  Railroad  Company,  and  since  that  date  he  has  engaged  in 
general  practice.  He  has  been  a  director  of  the  Wallkill  Valley 
Railroad  Company  and  the  Mahopac  Falls  Railroad  Company. 

He  is  unmarried,  independent  in  politics,  a  member  of  the 
Episcopal  church  and  of  the  Yale  Club,  New  York  City. 


Victor  Bush  Caldwell 

President  of  the  United  States  National  Bank  of  Omaha 
Residence,  630  South  Twentieth  Street,  Omaha,  Nebr. 

Victor  B.  Caldwell  is  a  son  of  Smith  Samuel  and  Henrietta 
McGrath  (Bush)  Caldwell,  who  were  married  April  29,  1863,  and 
to  whom  were  born  three  other  children:  Joseph  Caldwell  (died 
July  1,  1879),  Anna  (died  April  10,  1879),  and  Smith  Samuel,  Jr., 
Phillips  Andover  '95.  Smith  S.  Caldwell  was  born  September  4, 
1834,  in  Marion,  Wayne  County,  N.  Y.,  and  died  in  Omaha,  in 
June,  1884.  He  was  graduated  from  the  preparatory  academy  at 
Easthampton,  Mass.,  Union  College,  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  and  from 


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VICTOR  BUSH  CALDWELL 


the  Albany  Law  School.  He  was  the  senior  partner  of  the  private 
banking  house  of  Caldwell,  Hamilton  &  Company,  in  Omaha, 
which  subsequently  became  the  United  States  National  Bank  of 
Omaha.  Joseph  Caldwell,  of  Marion,  Wayne  County,  N.  Y.,  the 
father  of  S.  S.  Caldwell,  was  graduated  from  the  University  of 
North  Carolina,  of  which  his  uncle  was  president  and  remained 
president  for  over  thirty  years,  afterwards  going  abroad  on  a 
special  mission  for  the  government.  The  father  of  Joseph  Cald- 
well, Samuel  Harker  Caldwell,  was  graduated  from  the  University 
of  New  Jersey,  afterwards  Princeton  College.  When  the  four 
sons  of  Vic  Caldwell  graduate  from  Yale  it  will  be  the  fifth 
generation  in  the  Caldwell  family  with  college  degrees.  The 
ancestors  of  the  Caldwell  family  came  from  the  County  of  Derry, 
Ireland,  emigrating  to  Pennsylvania  in  1760.  They  later  moved  to 
Virginia  and  to  North  Carolina,  where  Dr.  Joseph  Caldwell  so 
long  resided.  Henrietta  McGrath  (Bush)  Caldwell  was  born 
September  5,  1840,  in  Tioga,  Tioga  County,  Pa.,  the  daughter  of 


174  BIOGRAPHIES 


Jabin  Strong  Bush  and  Eliza  (DePui)  Bush,,  and  now  resides  in 
Tioga  in  the  same  house  where  she  was  born.  Her  ancestors  were 
among  the  first  white  settlers  in  the  Chenango  Valley  in  New  York, 
coming  from  Holland. 

Caldwell  was  born  February  14,  1864,,  in  Omaha,  Nebr.,  and  has 
always  resided  there.  He  was  for  three  years  at  the  Racine 
Grammar  School,  Racine,  Wis.,  and  for  two  years  at  Phillips 
Academy  ('83),  Andover,  Mass.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of 
the  University  Club  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

Since  graduation  he  has  been  connected  with  the  United  States 
National  Bank  of  Omaha,  of  which  he  is  president.  He  is  vice- 
president  of  the  United  States  Trust  Company,  president  of  J.  W. 
Hugus  &  Company  of  Colorado,  and  is  a  director  of  the  Union 
Stock  Yards  Company  of  Omaha. 

In  politics  he  says  that  party  lines  weigh  lightly — that  he  is  "a 
Republican  mostly,  when  Republicans  are  good,  a  Democrat  occa- 
sionally, when  Democrats  are  at  all  good  (which  is  seldom)."  He 
has  served  on  several  charitable  and  public  boards  in  the  past  and 
says  that  his  reason  for  not  being  on  them  now  is  that  he  is  becoming 
"closer  fisted"  and  that  they  need  "younger  men."  He  is  junior 
warden  of  All  Saints  (Episcopal)  Church.  For  several  years  he 
served  as  president  of  the  Omaha  Club  and  was  one  of  its  directors 
for  over  fifteen  years.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  University  Club 
of  Chicago  and  several  country  and  local  clubs  in  Omaha.  For 
several  years  he  has  been  the  representative  of  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  Nebraska  upon  the  Alumni  Advisory  Board. 

He  was  married  October  10,  1888,  in  Pasadena,  Calif.,  to  Nellie 
Rees,  daughter  of  John  W.  Hugus,  a  banker,  and  Annetta  Olivia 
(Rees)  Hugus.  They  have  four  sons: 

John  Hugus,  Yale  '12,  born  August  7,  1889. 

Victor  Bush,  Jr.,  Yale  '16,  born  August  14,  1892. 

Jabin  Bush,  born  March  13,  1895. 

David  Rees,  born  February  12,  1900. 

John  H.  Caldwell  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  St.  Paul's  School, 
Concord,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  He  contributed  to 
the  Record  and  his  athletic  interests  centered  in  tennis,  baseball 
and  boxing.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Corinthian  Yacht  Club,  the 


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SCHUYLER  CASEMATE  CARLTON 

football  cheering  staff,  and  president  of  the  Middle  West  Club.  His 
societies  were  Kappa  Beta  Phi,  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  and  Alpha  Delta 
Phi.  During  the  year  following  his  graduation  from  the  College  he 
was  a  student  in  the  Yale  Law  School  and  is  now  (1915)  a  member 
of  the  Nebraska  Bar. 

Victor  Bush  Caldwell,  Jr.,  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1916 
and  the  other  two  sons  will  enter  Yale  soon,  so  there  will  be  a  pair 
of  Caldwell  brothers  there  for  several  years  to  come. 


Schuyler  Casemate  Carlton 

Lawyer,  Gleason  &  Carlton,  165  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  126  East  Twelfth  Street,  New  York  City 

Schuyler  C.  Carlton  is  a  son  of  Brigadier  General  Caleb  Henry 
Carlton  and  Sara  (Pollock)  Carlton,  who  were  married  March  3, 
1863,  and  had  three  other  children,  one  of  whom,  a  daughter,  Mabel 


176  BIOGRAPHIES 


Percy  Carlton,  is  living.  Caleb  Henry  Carlton,  son  of  C.  C.  and 
Jane  (Stow)  Carlton,  is  descended  from  Edward  Carlton,  who 
came  from  London,  England,  in  1646,  and  settled  in  Rowley,  Mass. 
The  family  later  moved  to  Tolland  County,  Conn.  (Stafford),  about 
1720  and  to  Ohio  or  the  Western  Reserve  in  1814.  Born  Sep- 
tember 1,  1836,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  he  was  graduated  at  the  United 
State  Military  Academy  in  1859,  and  was  appointed  to  the  Fourth 
Infantry.  He  was  promoted  to  rank  of  major  for  the  Peninsular 
campaign,  July  4,  1862,  and  lieutenant-colonel  for  the  battle  of 
Chickamauga,  Ga.,  September  20,  1863.  He  was  appointed  briga- 
dier general  on  June  28,  1897,  and  after  forty  years  of  service  was 
retired  at  his  own  request.  He  resides  in  Rye,  N.  Y.  His  wife,  who 
died  in  1896,  in  Bowmansdale,  Pa.,  was  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry, 
the  family  having  settled  near  Williamsport,  Pa.,  in  colonial  times, 
as  a  member  of  the  family  served  as  captain  in  the  French  and 
Indian  War. 

Carlton  was  born  at  Fort  Schuyler,  New  York  Harbor,  on  Sep- 
tember 21,  1865.  He  was  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord, 
and  entered  '87  in  Sophomore  year.  He  received  a  second  colloquy 
Senior  appointment,  was  a  member  of  the  Track  Team,  captain  of 
the  Yale  Bicycle  Team,  and  a  member  of  the  University  Club  and 
Psi  Upsilon. 

He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  Columbia  in  1889  and  has 
since  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  New  York  City.  Since 
December  1,  1910,  he  has  been  associated  with  Lafayette  B.  Glea- 
son  (Yale  '85),  at  165  Broadway.  He  writes:  "I  have  not  added 
anything  as  you  request  in  the  way  of  a  biography,  because,  although 
I  have  been  interested  in  living  my  life,  I  doubt  if  any  one  else 
would  be  in  reading  it." 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church  and  in  politics  is  a 
Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  New  York 
and  the  Apawamis  Club  of  Rye. 

He  was  married  June  10,  1908,  in  New  York  City,  to  Florence, 
daughter  of  Henry  Jay  and  Mary  E.  (Culver)  Couse.  They  have 
one  daughter: 

Elizabeth  Pollock,  born  May  16,  1909,  in  New  York  City. 


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WALTER  BOUGHTON  CHAMBERS 


Walter  Boughton  Chambers 

Architect,  109  Broad  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  161  East  Sixty-fourth  Street,  New  York  City 

Walter  B.  Chambers  is  a  son  of  William  P.  and  Caroline 
(Boughton)  Chambers,  who  were  married  in  1864,  and  had  one 
other  son,  Robert  William  Chambers,  the  author.  William  P. 
Chambers  was  born  February  27,  1827,  in  Broadalbin,  N.  Y.,  and 
died  there,  July  18,  1911.  He  was  graduated  at  Union  College  in 
1848  with  the  degree  of  B.A.,  and  practiced  his  profession,  law, 
in  New  York  City.  He  was  of  English  and  Scotch  (chiefly  Scotch) 
descent,  his  ancestors  coming  to  this  country  about  the  middle  of 
the  eighteenth  century.  His  wife,  Caroline  (Boughton)  Chambers, 
was  born  in  November,  1842,  in  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  and  is  de- 
scended from  English  and  French  ancestors,  who  came  to  America 
about  1636. 


178  BIOGRAPHIES 


Chambers  was  born  September  15,  1866,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
and  prepared  for  college  at  the  Polytechnic  Institute  in  that  city. 
At  Yale  he  was  art  editor  of  the  Record,  and  a  member  of  the 
University  Club,  He  Boule,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

On  graduation  he  went  abroad  and  studied  architecture  at 
Munich  University  during  1887-88,  and  at  L'Ecole  des  Beaux-Arts, 
Paris,  1889-91,  where  he  was  a  pupil  of  Blondel.  On  his  return 
to  New  York  in  1891  he  entered  the  office  of  Richard  M.  Hunt, 
but  in  1894  he  became  associated  with  Ernest  Flagg.  This  part- 
nership continued  until  1906  and  although  their  professional  prac- 
tice has  been  independent  since  that  date,  they  continue  to  have 
offices  together.  He  writes : 

"When  I  got  back  in  1891  from  studying  at  Munich  and  L'Ecole 
des  Beaux-Arts  at  Paris,  I  helped  form  the  Society  of  Beaux-Arts 
Architects,  which  has  since  become  a  power  in  the  educational  world 
of  this  country.  We  have  revolutionized  the  method  of  instruction 
in  the  architectural  schools  here.  They  all  fought  us  at  first,  when 
we  set  about  introducing  the  Atelier  system  and  the  Concours 
method,  the  two  chief  characteristics  of  the  Paris  school,  and  they 
have  all  ended  by  accepting  our  views  and  reorganizing  accordingly. 
I  happened  to  be  serving  as  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Educa- 
tion in  1902  and  1903,  at  the  time  when  our  former  enemy,  Colum- 
bia University,  'saw  a  light'  and  offered  to  cooperate  with  us  in 
our  educational  work.  Today,  Columbia's  architectural  depart- 
ment is  one  of  the  best  in  the  country,  in  charge  of  Paris-trained 
architects,  men  of  wide  experience  and  distinguished  attainment. 
This  is  as  it  ought  to  be.  Let  us  hope  that  some  day  Yale's  depart- 
ment of  architecture  will  'see  a  light.'  " 

Chambers  served  as  a  trooper  in  Squadron  A,  New  York  Cavalry, 
from  1899  to  1905.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute 
of  Architects,  also  the  New  York  chapter,  the  Society  of  Beaux- 
Arts  Architects,  and  has  recently  been  elected  a  Fellow  in  the 
American  Institute  of  Architects.  In  1912  he  received  the  first 
prize,  and  in  1913  he  was  awarded  one  of  the  three  prizes  offered 
annually  by  the  New  York  chapter  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Architects  for  the  best  designed  apartment  buildings  erected  in  New 
York  during  the  year.  He  has  designed  buildings  of  many  kinds 
for  '87,  '86  S.,  and  other  Yale  men.  He  designed  the  "Meacham 


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Memorial."  His  clubs  are  the  Yale,  University  and  Century,  all 
of  New  York  City. 

He  was  married  June  9,  1897,  to  Ethel,  daughter  of  Peter  Not- 
man,  of  Brooklyn.  Mrs.  Chambers  died  July  19,  1898,  leaving  one 
son: 

Robert  Notman,  born  July  17,  1898. 

He  married  a  second  time,  April  23,  1901,  in  Dresden,  Germany, 
Elizabeth  Margery,  daughter  of  Robert  W.  and  Elizabeth  G.  Fer- 
guson, of  New  York  City.  They  have  two  sons: 

Walter  Ferguson,  born  January  21,  1902,  in  New  York  City. 

William  Hall,  born  June  8,  1910,  in  New  York  City. 


Frederick  Starkweather  Chase 

Treasurer  of  the  Chase  Rolling  Mill  Company,  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Residence,  165  Grove  Street,  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Frederick  S.  Chase  is  a  son  of  Augustus  Sabin  and  Martha 
(Starkweather)  Chase,  who  were  married  September  7,  1854,  and 
had  five  other  children,  two  sons  and  three  daughters :  Henry  Sabin 
Chase,  Yale  '77,  Irving  Hall  Chase,  Yale  '80,  Helen  Elizabeth 
Chase,  Mary  Eliza  Chase  (married  Arthur  Reed  Kimball,  Yale 
'77),  and  Alice  Martha  Chase  (married  Edward  Clark  Streeter, 
Yale  '98).  Augustus  S.  Chase,  son  of  Seth  and  Eliza  Hempstead 
(Dodge)  Chase,  and  a  descendant  of  William  and  Mary  Chase, 
who  came  from  Chesham,  England,  to  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in  1630, 
was  born  in  Pomfret,  Conn.,  August  15,  1828,  and  died  June  7, 
1896,  in  Paris,  France.  He  was  educated  at  Woodstock  (Conn.) 
Academy,  and  after  1850  lived  in  Waterbury,  where  he  was  allied 
with  many  of  the  prominent  business  enterprises,  being  president 
of  the  Waterbury  National  Bank,  Waterbury  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, Benedict  &  Burnham  Manufacturing  Company,  Waterbury 
Buckle  Company,  Smith  &  Griggs  Manufacturing  Company,  etc. 
Mrs.  Chase  was  born  in  Chesterfield,  Mass.,  on  April  8,  1830,  and 
died  in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  December  1,  1906.  Her  first  ancestors 
in  this  country  were  Robert  Starkweather,  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  and 
Jennette  Roberts,  of  Wales,  who  came  to  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in  164-0 


180 


BIOGRAPHIES 


FREDERICK  STARKWEATHER  CHASE 


and  1636,  respectively.  Chauncey  Clark  Starkweather,  Yale  '74, 
is  a  relative. 

Chase  was  born  July  2,  1862,  in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  where  he  has 
always  resided.  He  was  prepared  at  the  English  and  Classical 
School,  Waterbury,  a  private  school  in  Munich,  Germany,  and  at 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  In  college  he  received  a  dissertation 
appointment  Junior  year  and  a  first  dispute  Senior  year.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Bicycle  Club,  governing  board  of  the  University 
Club,  the  Junior  Prom  Committee,  Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 
and  Scroll  and  Key. 

Since  graduation  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  manufacturing  busi- 
ness in  Waterbury,  where  he  now  holds  the  positions  of  treasurer 
of  the  Chase  Rolling  Mill  Company,  secretary  of  the  Waterbury 
Manufacturing  Company  and  treasurer  of  the  Chase  Metal  Works. 

He  is  an  Independent  Republican,  "not  Progressive."  He  is  a 
member  of  the  council  of  the  Mattatuck  Historical  Society,  the 
V.  P.  Boys'  Club  and  interested  in  good  local  government,  good 


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roads,  etc.  He  is  a  vestryman  of  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church.  His 
clubs  are  the  Home,  Country,  Rod  and  Gun,  Automobile  and 
Waterbury,  all  of  that  city,  the  Yale  of  New  York  and  the  Gradu- 
ates of  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  February  17,  1890,  in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  to 
Elsie,  daughter  of  Rev.  Edmund  Rowland,  D.D.,  and  Sarah 
(Belknap)  Rowland.  Mrs.  Chase  received  a  certificate  from  the 
Yale  Art  School.  They  have  six  children: 

Ethel  Rowland,  born  February  5,  1892,  married  October  23, 
1912,  to  Robert  Lewis  Coe,  Cornell  '08.  They  have  a  daughter, 
Joan  Chase,  born  December  25,  1913. 

Helen  Starkweather,  born  November  11,  1894,  attending  Bryn 
Mawr  College. 

Augustus  Sabin,  3d,  born  March  16,  1897,  now  in  the  Fifth  Form 
at  St.  Mark's  School,  Southboro,  Mass. 

Edmund  Rowland,  born  July  8,  1898,  now  in  the  Fourth  Form  at 
St.  Mark's  School. 

Fredrika,  born  September  27,  1903. 

Justine  Whittemore,  born  July  25,  1906. 


Francis  Cameron  Clarke 

Purchasing  Agent  for  the  Commissary  Supplies  of  the  New  York  Central 
Lines,  Grand  Central  Terminal,  New  York  City 

Residence,  Bronxville,  N.  Y. 

Francis  C.  Clarke  is  a  son  of  Charles  Cameron  and  Sarah  Ruth 
(McCutchin)  Clarke,  who  were  married  in  May,  1859,  and  had  two 
other  children:  Charles  Cameron  Clarke,  Yale  *83,  professor  of 
French  at  Yale  University,  and  Jane  (Clarke)  Titus.  Charles 
Cameron  Clarke,  Sr.,  was  born  February  24,  1823,  in  Canandaigua, 
N.  Y.,  and  died  May  25,  1910,  in  Briarcliff  Manor,  N.  Y.  His 
father's  people  were  of  the  North  Hadley  branch  of  the  family  of 
that  name.  Their  first  American  ancestor  is  recorded  in  the  book 
of  North  Hadley  genealogies.  His  mother  was  from  Inverness 
Shire,  Scotland,  and  through  her  he  was  descended  from  a  line  of 
Scottish  ancestors,  ancient  and  historically  distinguished.  He  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Geneva  (now  Hobart)  College  in 


182  BIOGRAPHIES 


1844  and  then  studied  law  for  about  four  years.  In  1854  he  entered 
the  railroad  service  and  at  a  time  shortly  before  his  death  he  held 
directorships  in  about  forty  railroads  and  was  vice-president  of  sev- 
eral of  these,  of  which  the  most  important  was  the  New  York  Cen- 
tral &  Hudson  River  Railroad  Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  the  American  Museum  of  Natural 
History,  the  American  Geographical  Society  and  the  Linnsean  Soci- 
ety. Sarah  Ruth  (McCutchin)  Clarke  was  born  in  1829,  in  Chris- 
tianstedt,  Santa  Cruz,  Danish  West  Indies,  and  died  October  24, 
1886,  in  Briarcliff  Manor,  N.  Y.  Her  father  was  a  north  of  Ireland 
Protestant  gentleman,  who  went  to  Santa  Cruz  in  his  youth  and 
married  into  a  family  who  owned  sugar  estates  there.  They  were 
descended  from  Irish  ancestors,  who  were  driven  from  their  country 
by  Oliver  Cromwell. 

Clarke  was  born  in  New  York  City,  February  7,  1866.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Briarcliff,  near  Ossining,  N.  Y.,  and  he  was 
prepared  at  the  Columbia  Grammar  School  in  New  York  City. 
Previous  to  that  he  attended  Dr.  D.  A.  Holbrook's  Military  Acad- 
emy at  Ossining,  N.  Y.  In  college  he  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale 
Record  and  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman,  Second  and  University 
Glee  clubs,  the  College  Choir,  Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon,  Wolf's  Head 
and  Chi  Delta  Theta.  He  writes: 

"July  12,  1887,  I  entered  the  treasurer's  office  of  the  New  York 
Central  &  Hudson  River  Railroad  Company  and  filled  a  gap  in  my 
collegiate  education  by  a  postgraduate  course  in  addition  and 
bookkeeping.  Although  I  believe  I  attained  a  fair  proficiency,  on 
the  whole,  I  prefer  the  classics.  Illness  in  the  autumn  of  1888 
interrupted  this  occupation  and  the  following  three  and  a  half 
years  were  spent  in  travel  in  this  country  and  abroad.  During  them 
I  passed  a  good  deal  of  time  in  California,  Colorado  and  North  and 
South  Carolina. 

"About  June  1,  1892,  I  returned  to  New  York  and  was  employed 
on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Mail  and  Express,  now  the  Evening 
Mail.  Col.  Elliot  F.  Shepard  was  then  its  owner  and  ruling  spirit, 
and  while  I  hold  his  kindness  to  me  in  grateful  remembrance,  I  may 
record  that  his  strange  editorial  inspirations,  and  especially  the 
queer  ukases  on  all  kinds  of  subjects  that  used  to  issue  on  slips  of 
paper  from  his  private  office,  often  made  the  paper  more  funny  than 


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FRAXCIS  CAMERON  CLARKE 


serious  and  enveloped  his  staff  in  an  atmosphere  of  light  comedy. 
Among  the  editors  with  whom  I  was  associated  were  Henry  L. 
Stoddard,  the  present  proprietor  and  editor  of  the  Mail,  John  A. 
Sleicher,  A.  Wyllys  Lightbourn,  Sheffield  Phelps,  '86,  and  Amos 
Wilder,  '84. 

"During  1893,  dazzled  by  promises  of  increased  emolument 
(some  of  which  were  kept),  I  joined  in  an  attempt  already  on  foot 
to  resuscitate  a  once  popular  but  then  defunct  magazine.  But  the 
affairs  of  the  new-old  periodical  were  already  in  a  morass — the 
corpse  declined  to  be  galvanized — and  I  escaped  shortly  to  the  Mail 
and  Express  again.  Colonel  Shepard  meanwhile  had  died,  but 
through  my  friend,  Robert  Dorr,  I  was  appointed  to  the  desk  of 
music,  and  thereafter  wrote  alleged  criticisms  of  concerts  and  opera. 
This  employment,  which  I  found  very  congenial,  was  terminated  the 
next  year  by  another  of  the  several  illnesses  that  were  somewhat  of 
a  nemesis  during  those  years  of  my  life. 


184  BIOGRAPHIES 


"In  the  fall  of  1897  I  returned  to  the  New  York  Central  & 
Hudson  River  Railroad  Company,  ten  years  after  my  first  begin- 
nings there.  I  was  for  six  years  in  the  auditing  department.  In 
1901  I  was  married  in  St.  Paul,  as  your  record  shows.  In  1903 
I  became  connected  with  the  purchasing  department.  January, 
1909,  I  took  charge  of  the  purchase  of  commissary  supplies  and 
equipment  for  the  New  York  Central  Lines." 

Clarke  was  formerly  a  director  of  the  Southern  States  Pine 
Products  Company,  which  was  later  absorbed  by  another  company. 
He  is  also  a  farmer  and  fruit  grower,  at  Schodack  Landing,  N.  Y. 
His  traditions  are  Republican,  but  he  is  at  present  to  be  found 
among  the  Bull  Moosers.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church. 
He  formerly  belonged  to  the  City,  Yale  and  Transportation  clubs 
of  New  York. 

He  was  married  January  7,  1901,  to  Frances  Liffring,  daughter  of 
Henry  Murney  and  Louise  Gregory  Smyth,  of  St.  Paul,  Minn. 
They  have  three  children: 

Charles  Cameron,  3d,  born  November  1,  1902,  in  New  York  City. 

Romeyn,  born  December  9,  1903,  in  New  York  City. 

Janet  Cameron,  born  November  27,  1906,  in  Ossining,  N.  Y. 

William  Savage  Burns  is  a  first  cousin  of  Clarke,  and  Samuel 
Knight  is  his  "father's  mother's  sister's  daughter's  husband's  son — 
find  the  relationship." 


Sanford  Ellsworth  Cobb 

Retired,   formerly  with   the  Atlantic  Mutual  Insurance  Company  of   New 
York,  51  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  Lamanda  Park,  Calif. 

Sanford  E.  Cobb  is  a  son  of  Henry  Nitchie  and  Matilda  Emeline 
(Van  Zandt)  Cobb,  who  were  married  May  15,  1860,  and  had  one 
other  child,  a  daughter,  Maria  Van  Zandt  Cobb  (Mrs.  Archibald 
Lyle  MacLeish,  of  Los  Angeles).  The  first  American  ancestor  of 
the  Cobb  family  was  Henry  Cobb,  who  came  from  Kent  County, 
England,  to  Plymouth  Colony,  in  1629,  and  was  there  deputy  to 
the  general  court  of  the  colony  for  many  years  and  ruling  elder 


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( 


SAN  FORD  ELLSWORTH  COHB 


of  the  church  at  Barnstable,  Mass.  Other  ancestors  were  John 
Rowland  and  John  Tilley,  signers  of  the  Mayflower  Compact,  and 
Rev.  James  Noyes,  one  of  the  founders  of  Yale  College.  Henry 
Nitchie  Cobb,  son  of  Sanford  and  Sophia  Lewis  (Nitchie)  Cobb, 
was  born  November  15,  1834,  in  New  York  City,  and  died  in  East 
Orange,  N.  J.,  April  17,  1910.  Two  brothers,  Oliver  Ellsworth 
Cobb  and  Sanford  Hoadley  Cobb,  were  graduated  at  Yale  in  1853 
and  1858,  respectively.  He  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale 
College  in  1855,  was  graduated  from  Union  Theological  Seminary  in 
1857,  and  in  1878  received  the  degree  of  D.D.  at  Rutgers  College. 
He  was  a  missionary  in  Persia  under  the  American  Board  of  Com- 
missioners for  Foreign  Missions  from  1860  to  1862,  was  pastor  of 
the  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  Millbrook,  N.  Y.,  1866-81,  and 
corresponding  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the 
Reformed  Church  in  America  from  1883  to  1910.  Matilda  Emeline 
(Van  Zandt)  Cobb,  a  descendant  of  Jan  Van  Santen,  who  settled  in 


186  BIOGRAPHIES 


Albany  in  1693,  and  daughter  of  Matthew  Thomas  and  Maria 
(Suydam)  Van  Zandt,  was  born  December  12,  1832,  in  Kingston, 
N.  Y.,  and  died  May  11,  1910,  in  East  Orange,  N.  J.  She  was 
active  in  church  work  and  devoted  to  foreign  missions,  for  twenty- 
three  years  editing  the  Mission  Gleaner. 

Cobb  was  born  at  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  February  11,  1866.  He 
attended  Rutgers  Grammar  School,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  from 
1878  to  1880,  Seymour  Smith  Institute,  Pine  Plains,  N.  Y.,  from 
1880  to  1882,  and  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  from  1882  to  1883. 
In  college  he  received  a  second  dispute  Junior  appointment  and  a 
first  colloquy  Senior  appointment  and  was  a  member  of  the  Bicycle 
and  Pundit  clubs. 

In  August,  1887,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Atlantic  Mutual 
Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  a  marine  insurance  company, 
but  in  1910,  being  then  second  vice-president,  was  compelled  by 
ill  health  to  resign  the  office  and  retire  from  active  work.  He  then 
moved  to  California,  where  he  is  now  residing  at  Lamanda  Park, 
near  Pasadena. 

While  residing  in  East  Orange  he  was  a  member  of  various  local 
and  outside  organizations,  including  the  Civics,  the  New  England 
Society,  Central  Presbyterian  Church,  Young  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation, East  Orange  Golf  Club,  Essex  County  Country  Club,  Riding 
Club,  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Essex  County,  American  Geo- 
graphical Society,  Life  Saving  Benevolent  Association,  Naval  Re- 
serve and  Yale  Club  of  New  York  City.  He  served  as  treasurer  and 
president  of  the  Alumni  Association  and  of  the  Golf  Club,  manager 
of  the  Life  Saving  Benevolent  Association,  and  trustee  of  the  church. 
He  helped  to  organize  and  served  four  years  with  the  rating  of  cox- 
swain in  the  First  Battalion,  New  York  Naval  Militia,  1890  to 
1893,  seeing  two  days'  active  service  at  the  time  of  the  cholera 
scare  in  1892,  when  the  battalion  was  ordered  out  for  the  protection 
of  Fire  Island. 

He  writes:  "When  I  left  New  Haven  in  June  of  1887,  I  had, 
among  others,  two  notions  in  my  head.  First,  that  as  soon  as  the 
great  business  concerns  of  New  York  heard  that  I  was  foot-loose 
they  would  fall  over  each  other  in  their  efforts  to  avail  themselves 
of  my  valuable  and  highly  paid  services.  Second,  that  it  was  neces- 


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sary  for  me  to  prove  something  about  the  value  of  a  college  educa- 
tion applied  to  business.  The  first  illusion  was  rudely  dispelled 
when,  after  two  months'  weary  waiting,  I  hitched  my  little  wagon 
to  the  Atlantic  Mutual,  a  marine  insurance  company  of  honest 
intention  and  good  repute,  and  took  what  I  could  get.  After 
twenty-three  years  of  most  enjoyable  service  with  that  company, 
resigning  on  account  of  ill  health,  I  found  I  hadn't  proved  anything 
after  all,  and  thus  my  second  illusion  went  by  the  board.  I  venture, 
however,  after  a  brief  experience  and  from  observation,  this 
dictum — that  a  college  education  in  direct  relation  to  a  man's  busi- 
ness is  of  very  little  advantage  to  him,  but  is  of  inestimable  value 
in  his  personal  relations  in  life. 

"California  is  a  far  cry  from  New  York,  and  while  well  enough 
in  itself  seems  a  long  way  from  home.  Am  trying  to  become  an 
adopted  son  with  as  good  grace  as  may  be  while  I  chase  the 
phantom — health.  Making  a  few  blossoms  grow  in  the  wilderness 
and  training  up  my  own  young  sprouts  on  the  Yale  idea  are  my 
chief  occupations  at  present. 

"Looking  back  over  the  twenty-five  years,  the  Game  looks  good 
to  me.  Whether  we  have  played  it  well  or  badly  and  according  to 
the  rules  or  not,  the  results  are  on  the  knees  of  the  gods.  A  man 
relegated  to  the  sidelines  before  the  first  half  is  over  is  very  apt 
to  look  for  his  future  in  the  past.  It  is  essential  for  such  a  one  to 
bear  in  mind  that  the  good  Lord  hates  a  quitter,  as  do  also  Yale 
and  Eighty-seven." 

Cobb  was  married  September  6,  1905,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  to 
Margaret  Brown,  daughter  of  Archibald  Lyle  MacLeish,  M.D.,  and 
Grace  Helen  (PefTers)  MacLeish.  Dr.  MacLeish  was  formerly  a 
medical  missionary  at  Amoy,  China,  where  Mrs.  Cobb  was  born. 
They  have  four  children: 

Sanford,  born  October  23,  1906,  in  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Henry  Van  Zandt,  born  February  22,  1909,  in  East  Orange, 
N.  J. 

Helen  Evertson,  born  December  3,  1911,  in  Lamanda  Park, 
Calif. 

Margaret  MacLeish,  born  July  17,  1913,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 


188 


BIOGRAPHIES 


FRAXCIS  COCHRANE 


Francis  Cochrane 

Lawyer,  10  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 
Residences,  Yale  Club,  New  York  City,  and  Hudson,  N.  Y. 

Francis  Cochrane  is  a  son  of  Francis  and  Barbara  (Van  Schaick) 
Cochrane,  who  were  married  in  the  year  1852.  There  were  born 
four  other  children,  Helena  (Cochrane)  Gates,  Aaron  Van  Schaick 
Cochrane,  Yale  '79,  Roberta  M.  Cochrane,  and  J.  Elwyn  Cochrane, 
M.D.  Francis  Cochrane,  the  father,  was  born  in  Vermont,  October 
12,  1825,  and  during  the  last  sixty-three  years  of  his  life,  from 
1844  until  his  death  in  March,  1907,  was  a  farmer  in  Coxsackie, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  resided  on  the  homestead  of  his  wife's  family.  He 
was  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  Barbara  (Van  Schaick)  Cochrane 
was  born  April  7,  1826,  at  Coxsackie,  N.  Y.,  of  Dutch  ancestry. 
Her  family  came  from  Holland  over  two  hundred  years  ago  and 
settled  in  the  same  town  where  she  has  lived  all  her  life. 


GRADUATES  189 


Cochrane  was  born  January  13,  1863,  at  Coxsackie,  N.  Y.,  and 
was  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.  In 
college  he  received  a  first  prize  for  declamation  in  the  third  term 
of  Sophomore  year. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  September  13,  1889,  since  which  time  he  has 
been  practicing  law  at  10  Wall  Street,  New  York  City. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church,  is  independ- 
ent in  politics,  a  member  of  the  New  York  County  Lawyers  Asso- 
ciation, of  the  New  York  State  Bar  Association,  and  a  member  of 
the  Yale  and  Manhattan  clubs  of  New  York  City. 

He  was  married  October  30,  1902,  in  Hudson,  N.  Y.,  to  Frances 
Rice,  daughter  of  James  C.  Rogerson  and  Cornelia  (Moseley) 
Rogerson.  Mrs.  Cochrane  graduated  at  Smith  College  in  1891. 
They  have  two  daughters : 

Cornelia  Rogerson,  born  August  6,  1903,  in  Hudson,  N.  Y. 

Frances  Barbara,  born  August  7,  1906,  in  Hudson,  N.  Y. 


Alfred  Coit 

Lawyer,  Manwaring  Building,  New  London,  Conn. 
Residence,  146  Huntington  Street,  New  London,  Conn. 

Alfred  Coit  is  a  son  of  Alfred  and  Ellen  (Hobron)  Coit,  who 
were  married  August  1,  1862,  and  had  four  other  children,  daugh- 
ters: Ellen,  Fanny,  Charlotte  (Coit)  Peck,  and  Lucy  (died  Decem- 
ber 4,  1882).  Alfred  Coit,  the  father,  was  born  May  23,  1835,  in 
New  London,  Conn.,  and  died  in  the  same  city,  January  17,  1879. 
He  was  the  son  of  Robert  and  Charlotte  Coit,  descendants  in  the 
seventh  generation  from  John  Coit,  who  came  from  Wales  about 
1630  and  settled  in  New  London  in  1650.  A  graduate  of  Yale  in 
1856  and  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1858,  he  was  identified  with 
the  courts  of  New  London  and  served  the  city  in  many  other  ways. 
He  was  a  representative  in  the  state  legislature  in  1862,  1863  and 
1864,  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  local  board  of 
school  visitors,  judge  of  probate,  judge  of  the  court  of  common 
pleas,  registrar  of  voters,  a  member  of  the  Gettysburg  Monument 
Commission  and  a  commissioner  of  the  Alabama  claims.  His  wife, 


190  BIOGRAPHIES 


Ellen  Hobron,  born  December  29,  1832,  in  New  York  City,  and 
died  February  8,  1900,  in  New  London,  was  a  descendant  of  Major 
John  Mason,  who  came  to  Dorchester,  Mass.,  in  1630,  and  who 
wiped  out  the  Pequot  Indians  in  1637,  and  of  other  colonial 
settlers. 

Coit  was  born  in  New  London,  Conn.,  November  4,  1863,  and 
prepared  at  the  Bulkeley  School,  that  city.  In  college  he  received 
second  dispute  appointments,  and  honors  in  political  science,  his- 
tory and  law  in  Senior  year.  He  was  leader  of  the  Second  and 
Freshman  Glee  clubs,  and  ran  the  quarter  mile  on  the  Track  Team, 
winning  second  place  in  the  Intercollegiates  and  third  in  the  Inter- 
national championships. 

He  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  cum  laude  at  the 
Yale  Law  School  in  1889  and  has  since  practiced  in  New  London. 
In  1892  he  was  elected  judge  of  probate  and  continued  in  that 
office  until  1910,  in  two  elections,  those  of  1902  and  1906,  being  on 
both  Democratic  and  Republican  tickets.  He  has  served  as  regis- 
trar of  voters  since  1890,  was  a  member  of  the  Republican  Town 
Committee  for  many  years  and  was  formerly  secretary  of  the  board 
of  school  visitors.  He  is  a  trustee,  director  and  attorney  of  the 
Savings  Bank  of  New  London,  a  director  and  attorney  of  the  Union 
Bank  of  New  London  and  secretary  of  the  New  England  Carpet 
Lining  Company.  He  writes: 

"There  are  disadvantages  in  living  in  a  small  city  where  every- 
body knows  you,  but,  to  my  mind,  the  advantages  far  outweigh  the 
disadvantages.  Here  I  am,  then,  living  where  eight  generations  of 
my  forbears  have  lived,  with  the  greatest  possession  which  a  man 
can  have, — to  wit,  a  contented  mind. 

"As  the  years  roll  around,  my  devotion  to  the  old  Yale  ideas 
and  ideals  grows  stronger  and  '87  bulks  bigger  in  my  life.  I 
believe  that  this  feeling  is  characteristic  of  the  Class  as  a  whole, 
for,  though  '87  men  have  always  been  particularly  loyal  to  each 
other,  I  have  never  seen  this  loyalty  shown  to  such  an  extent  as 
at  our  Twenty-five  Year  Reunion.  The  committee  which  so  pains- 
takingly planned  and  carried  through  that  remarkable  reunion  did 
a  great  service  to  the  Class,  for  those  days  will  live  in  the  memories 
of  all  of  us  as  they  brought  us  nearer  together  than  we  had  ever 
been. 


GRADUATES 


191 


ALFRED    COIT 


"My  love  for  music  has  grown  with  the  years  and  I  am  still  doing 
a  good  deal  of  singing.  I  inherited  a  love  for  books  from  my 
father  and  spend  more  than  I  can  afford  on  my  library.  I  am 
particularly  fond  of  the  study  of  history.  I  am  as  full  of  athletics 
as  ever  and  am  mixed  up  with  all  the  athletic  meets  in  these  parts. 

"I  was  judge  of  probate  for  eighteen  years  and  enjoyed  the 
work  immensely.  As  this  was  a  political  job,  I  knew  that  I  would 
get  trimmed  sometime  and  that  time  came  in  the  Democratic  land- 
slide of  1910.  Now  that  I  am  out  of  politics  and  practicing  law 
again,  I  am  enjoying  myself  more  than  I  ever  did  and  would  not 
go  back  on  the  bench  if  I  could. 

"Several  years  ago,  I  took  a  long  trip  through  the  South  with  a 
party  of  friends  to  inspect  a  lot  of  colleges  and  schools  which  were 
run  by  the  Congregationalists.  I  became  so  very  much  interested 
that  my  missionary  torch  got  lighted  for  fair  and,  since  that  trip, 
I  have  devoted  a  great  deal  of  my  time  and  energy  to  various  mis- 
sionary objects,  particularly  the  national  home  missionary  society 


192  BIOGRAPHIES 


of  my  denomination,  and  this  I  do  because  I  like  it  and  because  I 
think  it  very  much  worth  while. 

"The  most  worth  while  thing  I  have  done,  however,  is  to  teach  a 
Sunday  school  class  of  red-blooded  high  school  boys.  I  have  had 
this  class  for  upwards  of  twenty  years  so  that  a  good  many  genera- 
tions have  come  and  gone  and  I  hear  from  my  boys  constantly  from 
different  parts  of  the  country. 

"I  think  that  this  letter  indicates  in  general  what  has  been  the 
trend  of  my  life  and  my  aims  and  purposes  for  the  future.  The 
accomplishments  which  you  ask  me  to  mention  are  rather  conspicu- 
ous by  their  absence." 

Coit  is  a  deacon  in  the  Second  Congregational  Church,,  in  which 
his  grandfather  was  a  deacon  for  many  years,  he  and  his  wife  having 
been  two  of  the  nineteen  founders  of  the  church  in  1835.  He  is  a 
trustee  of  the  Manual  Training  and  Industrial  School  (also  secre- 
tary),, of  the  Memorial  Hospital,,  of  Manwaring  Memorial  Hospital 
(for  children),,  New  London  Public  Library,  and  of  several  philan- 
thropic trusts,  a  director  and  chairman  of  the  finance  committee 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Bradley  Street 
Mission,  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Connecticut 
Prison  Association,  chairman  of  the  executive  and  finance  com- 
mittees of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society,  a  corporate 
member  of  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign 
Missions,  a  member  of  the  Congregational  National  Council,  and 
former  moderator  of  the  General  (Congregational)  Conference  of 
Connecticut.  He  was  formerly  a  member  of  the  State  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
executive  committee,  and  was  president  of  the  Congregational 
Brotherhood  of  America,  the  national  organization  of  Congrega- 
tional men's  clubs.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution  and  of  various  local  clubs  and  organizations. 

He  was  married  June  4,  1890,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to  Gertrude 
F.,  daughter  of  David  O.  and  Mary  J.  (Grant)  Barker.  They  have 
one  daughter: 

Gertrude,  born  May  2,  1891,  in  New  London,  Conn.,  who  grad- 
uated from  Smith  College  in  the  Class  of  1913.  She  is  now  study- 
ing at  the  New  York  School  of  Philanthropy,  in  preparation  for 
social  settlement  work. 


GRADUATES 


193 


IRA   CLIFTON    COPLEY 


Ira  Clifton  Copley 

Member  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  Washington,  D.  C. 
President  of  the  Western  United  Gas  &  Electric  Company,  Aurora,  111. 

Ira  C.  Copley  is  a  son  of  Ira  Birdsall  and  Ellen  (Whiting) 
Copley,  who  were  married  in  November,  1854,  and  had  five  other 
sons,  none  of  whom  lived  to  maturity.  Ira  B.  Copley  was  born 
December  5,  1825,  in  Delaware  County,  N.  Y.,  and  died  December 
3,  1893,  in  San  Diego,  Calif.  Prior  to  1867  he  was  engaged  in 
farming  in  New  York  and  Illinois,  and  from  1867  to  1887  he  was 
manager  of  the  Aurora  Gas  Light  Company.  He  was  of  English 
descent,  tracing  his  ancestry  to  colonists  who  came  to  Plymouth  in 
1632.  Ellen  (Whiting)  Copley  was  born  June  16,  1837,  in  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  and  educated  at  Farmington.  She  is  of  English 
ancestry. 

Copley  was  born  in  Altona,  111.,  October  24,  1864,  moving  in 
1867  to  Aurora,  where  his  boyhood  was  spent.  He  prepared  at 


194  BIOGRAPHIES 


the  West  Aurora  High  School  and  at  Jennings  Seminary,,  Aurora. 
In  college  he  received  a  first  mathematical  premium  in  Freshman 
year,,  an  oration  Junior  and  a  first  dispute  Senior  appointment. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  for  two  years  at  Union  College 
of  Law,  Chicago,,  at  the  same  time  teaching  in  the  University  Pre- 
paratory School.  On  February  2,  1889,  he  became  general  manager 
of  the  Aurora  Gas  Light  Company  and  has  since  made  his  home  in 
that  place.  He  is  now  president  of  the  company,,  which  has  changed 
its  name  to  the  Western  United  Gas  &  Electric  Company.  He  is 
owner  of  the  Aurora  Beacon  and  of  the  Elgin  Courier,  Elgin,  111., 
principal  owner  of  Joliet  Daily  News  and  Joliet  Herald,  both 
published  in  Joliet,  111. 

He  was  elected  representative  in  Congress  from  the  Eleventh 
Illinois  District  in  1910,  and  in  1912  and  1914  was  reflected. 
He  is  a  Progressive.  He  was  lieutenant-colonel,  inspector  of  rifle 
practice,  Third  Brigade,  Illinois  National  Guard,  from  1893  to 
1897,  and  colonel  on  the  governor's  staff,  1905  to  1913. 

He  is  a  Mason,  Knight  of  Pythias,  Elk  and  Odd  Fellow.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Chicago  Club,  Union  League  Club,  University 
Club  and  Chicago  Athletic  Association,  all  of  Chicago. 

He  was  married  March  3,  1892,  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  to  Edith, 
daughter  of  William  W.  and  Mary  (Nelson)  Strohn.  Their  only 
child,  born  June  22,  1893,  lived  but  a  short  time. 


William  Aaron  Cornish 

Teacher  of  Mathematics  and  the  History  of  Education  at  the  State  Normal 
School,  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

Residence,  32  Owego  Street,  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

William  A.  Cornish  is  a  son  of  Robert  N.  and  Phebe  Selina 
(Harrison)  Cornish,  who  were  married  August  23,  1854,  and  had 
seven  other  children,  three  sons  and  four  daughters:  Robert  Har- 
rison Cornish,  Yale  '83,  M.A.  '87,  Mary  S.  Cornish,  Selina  R. 
Cornish,  George  A.  Cornish,  Abraham  Harrison  Cornish,  Harvard 
'95,  Charlotte  H.  Cornish,  B.S.  Columbia  '07,  and  Emma  W.  Cor- 
nish (married  Ralph  Freeman,  Amherst  '05).  Robert  N.  Cornish 
was  born  July  29,  1828,  in  Westville,  Otsego  County,  N.  Y.,  and 


GRADUATES 


195 


WILLIAM  AARON  CORNISH 


died  July  24,  1909,  in  Gillette,  N.  J.,  a  town  which  he  and  his 
brothers  named  after  their  mother,  Rachel  Gillette,  about  1870.  He 
was  the  son  of  Deacon  Robert  B.,  and  he  the  son  of  Aaron  Cornish, 
a  pioneer  in  Central  New  York  (Otsego  County)  about  1807. 
Aaron  was  the  son  of  Joseph,  who  came  from  Groton,  Conn.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Volunteers  during  the  Revolu- 
tion and  was  killed  or  died  during  the  Saratoga  campaign.  The 
family  had  lived  at  Groton,  Conn.,  for  several  generations  and  was 
of  English  descent.  Our  classmate's  father  taught  school  prior  to 
1856,  when  he  moved  to  Morris  County,  N.  J.,  and  spent  the  rest 
of  his  life  as  a  farmer.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  Albany  (N.  Y.) 
State  Normal  School  in  1851.  His  wife,  Phebe  Selina  Harrison, 
was  born  August  8,  1830,  in  Orange,  N.  J.,  and  died  December  6, 
1901,  in  Gillette,  N.  J.  Her  father  was  Abraham  Harrison. 
Princeton  1797,  a  school  teacher,  Presbyterian  minister  and  farmer. 
The  Harrison  family  came  from  England  in  the  original  New 
Haven  Colony  and  settled  at  Milford,  Conn.,  about  1638.  The 


196  BIOGRAPHIES 


Newark  (N.  J.)  Colony  was  made  up  of  seceders  from  the  New 
Haven  Colony  when  an  ungodly  union  with  the  Connecticut  Colony 
seemed  inevitable.  To  the  Harrisons  was  at  that  time  (1687) 
assigned  a  farm  in  Orange  within  the  borders  of  the  Newark 
Colony. 

Cornish  was  born  November  6,  1862,,  in  Gillette,,  N.  J.,  and  was 
prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  In  college  he  won  a 
Freshman  mathematical  prize,  the  third  Freshman  scholarship,  a 
Sophomore  composition  prize  (second),  Junior  exhibition  prize, 
philosophical  oration  appointments  in  Junior  and  Senior  years, 
Senior  mathematical  prize  and  honors  in  mathematics.  He  was  a 
Junior  exhibition  speaker  and  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Debating 
Society,  the  Pundit  Club  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  writes: 

"I  have  been  teaching  school  ever  since  September,  1887,  and 
expect  to  keep  at  the  same  business  until  the  time  shall  come  that 
we  used  to  sing  about  in  college.  I  refer  to  the  chant,  'Soon  shall 
the  trumpet  sound,  and  we  shall  rise  to  immortality/  It  is  a  fact, 
literally  true,  that  thousands  have  been  in  my  classes.  Very  many 
of  them  are  teachers,  mostly  in  New  York  State,  but  many  also  in 
other  states,  probably  in  all  the  other  states.  Of  course  there  are 
very  many,  also,  of  my  pupils  who  are  doing  other  work  than 
teaching.  They  are  in  pretty  nearly  every  honorable  calling  that 
can  be  named  and  some  of  them  have  attained  considerable  emi- 
nence. There  are  very  few  of  whom  I  am  ashamed.  I  am  not,  of 
course,  claiming  that  they  would  not  have  been  equally  good  and 
great  if  they  had  not  been  in  my  classes.  But  it  is  a  constant 
source  of  surprise  that  they  seem  to  remember  me  and  my  teaching 
so  kindly.  I  suppose  that  it  is  the  idea  of  this  personal  letter  to 
give  each  one  an  opportunity  to  display  his  vanity. 

"I  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  in  the 
same  school  in  which  Archbald,  Hunt,  and,  I  think,  Hand,  received 
a  part  of  their  preparation.  Then  I  was  for  two  years  in  charge  of 
an  academy  at  Millington,  N.  J.,  near  my  home.  Then  I  spent 
three  years  more  in  the  school  in  Scranton,  already  mentioned.  I 
have  spent  twenty  years  in  this  State  Normal  School  at  Cortland, 
N.  Y. 

"The  things  I  haven't  done  would  fill  a  much  larger  volume 
than  my  record  of  achievement.  I  haven't  written  books  or  filled 


GRADUATES  197 


political  office.  I  preached  a  sermon  once,  but  cannot  seriously 
claim  that  it  has  had  much  to  do  with  the  general  advancement  of 
these  years.  A  considerable  family  the  Lord  has  given  me.  No 
aspirations  after  greatness  bother  me  especially.  I  resign  all  such 
things  to  the  rest  of  you  fellows  and  to  my  boys  and  girls." 

Cornish  is  an  Independent  Republican.  He  is  a  deacon  of  the 
Baptist  church  and  has  been  a  trustee  of  that  institution,  and  for 
many  years  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  school.  For  a  number  of 
years  he  has  been  secretary  of  a  federation  of  men  of  all  the 
Cortland  churches,  which  organization  has  for  its  object  to  under- 
take enterprises  for  the  good  of  the  community  which  men  of  one 
church  could  hardly  undertake.  He  is  a  member  of  Royal  Arcanum 
Lodge. 

He  was  married  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  December  29,  1892,  to 
Catherine  Wiley,  daughter  of  Edward  Nelson  Baker,  who  studied 
at  Amherst  in  the  Class  of  '66,  and  Abbie  M.  (Puffer)  Baker.  They 
have  six  children: 

Cornelia  Baker,  born  December  29,  1894,  in  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

William  Baker,  born  March  23,  1896,  in  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

Edward  Harrison  and  Louise  BuelL,  twins,  born  April  27,  1898, 
in  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

Catherine  Selina,  born  September  9,  1908,  in  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

George  Harlan,  born  April  15,  1911,  in  Cortland,  N.  Y. 


Robert  Nelson  Corwin,  Ph.D. 

Professor  of  German,  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  Yale  University 
Residence,  247  St.  Ronan  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Robert  N.  Corwin  is  a  son  of  Josiah  Frank  and  Jane  Amanda 
(Norton)  Corwin,  who  were  married  September  27,  1859,  and  had 
three  other  children:  Isabelle  Graham  Corwin  (died  August  21, 
1881),  Benjamin  Frank  Corwin,  Yale  '95,  M.D.,  '97,  and  Arthur 
Frank  Corwin,  Yale  '99  S.  Josiah  F.  Corwin,  who  was  born 
August  25,  1836,  in  Baiting  Hollow,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  and  died 
there  on  February  13,  1882,  received  his  education  at  Southold 
and  Miller's  Place  academies,  graduating  at  the  latter.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  held  several  positions  of  trust  in  the  management  of  the 


198  BIOGRAPHIES 


affairs  of  the  township.  "He  was  the  eighth  generation  from 
Matthias  Curwin,"  writes  his  son,  "as  Matthias  came  from  Eng- 
land, spoke  and  wrote  (his  will  at  least)  English,  I  have  always 
suspected  him  of  being  an  Englishman,  but  I  know  next  to  nothing 
about  him  before  his  appearance  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1633.  He 
moved  to  New  Haven  in  1638 — to  give  his  children  the  benefit  of 
a  college  education,  I  suppose — but  finding  that  Yale  had  not  yet 
been  founded,  he  went  over  to  Long  Island  in  1640  and  helped 
Rev.  John  Young  to  found  the  town  of  Southold.  If  any  of  my 
ancestors  became  illustrious,  they  must  have  done  it  on  the  sly, 
for  they  have  kept  the  fact  well  hidden  to  the  present  day.  Most 
of  the  good  old  Long  Island.  Yankee  names  appear  somewhere 
in  the  list  of  those  who  claim  a  share  in  my  ancestry.  There  are 
a  few  of  them  of  whom  I  am  rather  proud  in  a  very  quiet  way,  but 
tastes  and  fashions  in  ancestry  differ  so  much  that  others  might 
not  feel  as  I  do,  and  it  ill  behooves  one  to  boast,  anyway,  because 
he  cannot  claim  any  credit — and  then  he  has  to  share  his  ancestors 
with  such  a  lot  of  other  people."  Jane  Amanda  (Norton)  Corwin 
was  born  June  24,  1839,  in  Selden,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  the  daughter 
of  Nelson  Norton.  Her  first  American  ancestor  was  "Nathanell 
Norten,"  who  built  the  first  "meeting"  house  in  the  town  of  Brook- 
haven,  Long  Island,  at  Setauket,  in  1669. 

Corwin  was  born  at  Baiting  Hollow,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  Octo- 
ber 6,  1864,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Norwich  (Conn.) 
Free  Academy.  At  Yale  he  received  a  second  dispute  Junior  and 
a  second  colloquy  Senior  appointment,  played  on  the  football  teams 
of  Junior  and  Senior  years  and  was  captain  of  the  championship 
Football  Team  of  1886.  He  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull 
and  Bones. 

Since  1892  he  has  been  at  Yale  holding  successively  the  posi- 
tions of  instructor,  assistant  professor  and  professor  and  head  of 
the  department  of  German  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  He 
had  previously  spent  two  years  at  the  William  Penn  Charter  School 
in  Philadelphia  and  the  years  1890  to  1892  abroad  studying  at 
Berlin  and  Heidelberg,  where  he  received  the  degrees  of  M.A.  and 
Ph.D.,  both  in  1894. 

In  his  work  at  Yale,  Corwin  has  been  preeminent  in  furthering 
more  intimate  relations  between  the  University  and  the  secondary 


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ROBERT   NELSON"    CORWIJT 


schools,  and  in  promoting  and  assisting  undergraduate  activities. 
As  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Admissions  to  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School  and  as  a  member  of  the  University  Committee  on 
Admission  to  both  undergraduate  departments,  his  duties  have 
brought  him  into  close  contact  with  headmasters  and  high  school 
principals.  Under  his  guidance,  the  attitude  of  school  men  toward 
the  University  has  quite  changed  from  one  of  distrust  to  one  of 
confidence.  Under  his  administration  many  important  changes  have 
been  made  in  the  requirements  and  regulations  of  admission.  As 
thus  revised,  they  are  reaching  a  wider  circle,  both  socially  and 
geographically,  and  are  helping  to  maintain  the  democracy  and 
national  character  of  Yale.  The  present  relations  of  the  University 
with  the  school  men  may  be  seen  from  the  fact  that  headmasters 
and  principals  are  now  called  in  to  the  councils  of  the  University 
in  all  matters  which  concern  secondary  schools,  and  especially  to 
assist  in  the  preparation  of  examinations  for  admission.  In  his 
relations  with  the  school  men  has  been  fulfilled  the  prophecy  of 


200  BIOGRAPHIES 


Isaiah  where  he  saith,  "Instead  of  the  thorn  shall  come  up  the  fir 
tree,  and  instead  of  the  brier  shall  come  up  the  myrtle  tree." 

His  work  with  undergraduate  activities  has  culminated  in  his 
appointment  in  the  winter  of  1914-15  to  be  graduate  representa- 
tive for  football  on  the  University  Athletic  Association  and  his 
election  to  the  chairmanship  of  the  Association.  In  this  athletic 
work  he  is  at  his  old  business  of  supplanting  friction  with  co- 
operation. Here  he  is  making  an  effort  to  secure  harmonious,  effect- 
ive work  by  means  of  the  three  groups,  composed  of  the  graduates, 
the  faculty  and  the  students.  He  is  also  bringing  about  more  unity 
of  purpose  and  procedure  on  the  part  of  the  several  bodies  which 
go  to  make  up  a  hitherto  heterogeneous  general  association. 

With  these  connections  and  with  service  on  several  alumni  com- 
mittees and  with  pilgrimages  from  time  to  time  to  alumni  asso- 
ciations he  carries  on,  of  course,  the  professorship  of  German  and 
the  headship  of  this  department  in  Sheff,  which  includes  five 
instructors  besides  himself  and  which  gives  instruction  to  something 
over  700  students. 

He  writes:  "I  don't  see  how  I  can  give  a  very  good  account  of 
myself  under  your  captions:  (1)  I  have  not  changed  my  business. 
(2)  I  have  no  list  of  residences — even  my  present  residence  remains 
unchanged.  (3)  Travels — Your  last  communication  of  this  sort — 
five  years  ago — found  me  in  Germany.  We  did  a  lot  of  nice  things 
and  saw  a  lot,  all  of  which  last  are  recorded  in  a  little  red  book 
published  by  the  late  Mr.  Baedeker.  My  children  also  learned 
to  speak  German  as  she  is  spoken  by  Americans.  But  seven  lean 
years  don't  make  one  fat  one  and  you  must  not  expect  to  get  too 
much  mileage  out  of  a  Sabbatical  salary.  (4)  Recreations — I  have 
no  professional  recreations  or  other  bad  habits.  Reading — I  must 
own  up  to  reading  occasionally.  Sometimes  just  as  a  pastime  and 
then  again  just  for  the  deviltry  of  it." 

Corwin  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Graduates  and  Lawn  clubs  of  New  Haven,  the  Mod- 
ern Language  Association  of  America,  the  New  England  Associa- 
tion of  Colleges  and  Secondary  Schools  and  is  Yale's  representative 
on  the  College  Entrance  Examination  Board,  and  vice-chairman  of 
this  last  body. 

He  was  married  October  6,  1888,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  to  Mar- 


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garet  Wardell,  daughter  of  Leonard  Woolsey  and  Susan  (Bacon) 
Bacon.  Mrs.  Corwin  is  of  the  well-known  Yale  family,  which 
includes  her  father  (1850),  her  grandfather  (Leonard  Bacon. 
1820),  seven  uncles,  and  four  brothers.  They  have  had  five 
children : 

Margaret  Trumbull,  Bryn  Mawr  '12,  born  November  29,  1889,  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Robert  Nelson,  Jr.,  born  March  14,  1895,  died  September  5, 
1897. 

Wallace  Graham,  born  March  27,  1896,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

John  Bacon,  born  January  31,  1900,  died  January  26,  1903. 

Leonard  Bacon,  born  July  2,  1905,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Wallace  G.  Corwin  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1917,  Yale 
College. 

William  Hutchinson  Cowles 

Publisher  and  Owner  of  the  Morning  Spokesman-Review,  Spokane,  Wash. 
Residence,  2602  West  Second  Avenue,  Spokane,  Wash. 

William  H.  Cowles  is  a  son  of  Alfred  and  Sarah  Frances  (Hutch- 
inson) Cowles,  who  were  married  in  1860,  and  had  three  other 
children:  Edwin  Cowles  (died  in  infancy),  Sarah  Frances  Cowles 
(married  Philip  B.  Stewart,  Yale  '86),  and  Alfred  Cowles,  Yale  '86. 
Alfred  Cowles,  the  father,  was  born  May  13,  1832,  in  Mantua,  Ohio, 
and  died  December  20,  1889,  in  Chicago,  111.  He  studied  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  and  was  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Chicago 
Tribune,  of  which  he  was  also  business  manager  for  many  years. 
He  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Edwin  W.  and  Almira  M.  Cowles,  of  Cleve- 
land, and  his  first  ancestor  in  this  country  was  John  Cole,  who 
came  to  Massachusetts  from  Wales  in  1635,  and  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Farmington,  Conn.,  in  1652.  His  eldest  son,  Samuel, 
changed  the  spelling  of  the  name  to  Cowles  to  distinguish  from  the 
family  of  John  Cole,  of  Hartford.  Our  classmate's  mother,  Sarah 
Frances  Hutchinson,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Moseley  and  Eliza- 
beth Boardman  (Hall)  Hutchinson,  was  born  October  4,  1837,  in 
Cayuga,  N.  Y.,  and  died  there  August  11,  1884.  She  was  descended 
from  Charles  Chauncey,  who  came  from  England  to  Plymouth  in 
1637. 


BIOGRAPHIES 


WILLIAM  HUTCHIKSON  COWLES 


Cowles  was  born  in  Evanston,  111.,  August  14,  1866,,  and  was 
prepared  at  the  Harvard  School,  Chicago.  In  college  he  was 
chairman  of  the  News,  and  a  member  of  the  University  and  Bicycle 
clubs.  His  societies  were  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Skull  and 
Bones. 

Upon  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Law  School,  where  he 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1889.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  but  has  never  practiced  his  profession,  having  engaged  con- 
tinuously in  newspaper  work.  Since  1890  he  has  been  publisher 
of  the  Spokesman-Review,  of  Spokane,  of  which  he  is  also  owner. 

He  is  an  Independent  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Spokane  Club,  the  Spokane  Country  Club,  Spokane  Amateur  Ath- 
letic Club,  Spokane  Tennis  Club,  Chicago  University  Club,  New 
York  University  Club,  the  Santa  Barbara  Club,  and  the  Santa 
Barbara  Country  Club. 

He  was  married  February  12,  1896,  in  South  Manchester,  Conn., 
to  Harriet  Bowen,  daughter  of  Knight  Dexter  Cheney,  Brown  '59, 


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a  silk  manufacturer,  and  Ednah  Dow  (Smith)  Cheney.  Mrs. 
Cowles'  five  brothers  were  graduated  at  Yale:  Knight  Dexter 
Cheney,  Jr.,  '92,  Clifford  D.  Cheney,  '98,  Thomas  L.  and  Philip 
Cheney,  '01,  and  Russell  Cheney,  '04.  A  cousin,  Howell  Cheney, 
'92,  is  a  member  of  the  Yale  Corporation. 

They  have  three  children: 

Harriet,  born  December  3,  1898,  in  New  York  City. 

William  Hutchinson,  Jr.,  born  July  23,  1902,  at  Sands  Point, 
N.  Y. 

Cheney,  born  September  7,  1908,  in  Spokane,  Wash. 


Alexander  Brown  Coxe 

Residence,  Paoli,  Pa. 

Alexander  B.  Coxe  is  a  son  of  Henry  Brinton  and  Isabel  (Brown) 
Coxe,  who  were  married  in  February,  1862,  and  had  two  other 
children:  Henry  Brinton  Coxe,  Harvard  '85,  LL.B.  University  of 
Pennsylvania  '87,  and  Charles  Edmund  Coxe,  Yale  e,r-'94.  Henry 
Brinton  Coxe,  Sr.,  was  born  February  6,  1841,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
and  died  August  31,  1904,  in  Brussels,  Belgium.  He  was  the  son 
of  Hon.  Charles  Sidney  Coxe,  University  of  Pennsylvania  1808, 
and  Ann  Maria  Brinton,  and  was  descended  from  Dr.  Daniel  Coxe 
of  London,  whose  son  Daniel  came  to  this  country  in  1701.  He 
was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  the  Class  of 
1860  and  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Coxe  Brothers  &  Company, 
miners  of  anthracite  coal  at  Drifton,  Pa.  Isabel  (Brown)  Coxe 
was  born  in  July,  1843,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  died  in  July, 
1907,  in  Long  Branch,  N.  J.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Alexander 
Brown,  Rutgers  College  1836,  M.A.  1839,  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania e.r-1836,  and  Catherine  (Nielson)  Brown,  and  was  descended 
from  Alexander  Brown,  who  settled  in  Baltimore  in  1790,  from  the 
north  of  Ireland. 

Coxe  was  born  September  9,  1865,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  New  York  City  and  he  was  prepared  at  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven.  In  college  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Track  Team  throughout  his  course,  the  Football  Team 


204 


BIOGRAPHIES 


ALEXAKDER   BROWX   COXE 

in  1885,,  the  Class  Cup  Committee,  the  University  Club,  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

Coxe  was  with  Coxe  Brothers  &  Company  in  Drifton,  Pa.,  until 
1894,  with  the  exception  of  two  periods  of  study  at  Sheff  and  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania.  Since  that  time  he  has  resided  in 
Paoli,  Pa. 

He  was  married  June  4,  1891,  to  Sara  Frederica,  daughter  of 
John  Brinton  and  Jane  D.  (Gordon)  White  of  Drifton,  Pa.,  and 
a  sister  of  William  White,  Yale  '90. 


John  J.  Cullinan,  Jr. 

Lawyer,  Cullinan  &  Cullinan,  Sanford  Building,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Residence,  160  Elmwood  Place,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

John    J.    Cullinan,    Jr.,    is    a    son    of    John    J.    and    Catherine 
(Keating)  Cullinan,  who  were  married  April  4,  1864,  and  had  four 


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other  children:  Catherine  Cullinan  (Mrs.  J.  E.  Sullivan),  B.A. 
Smith  '89;  Thomas  Mitchell  Cullinan,  B.A.  Yale  '89,  LL.B.  '91; 
Mary  E.  (Cullinan)  Hurley  and  Helen  Elizabeth  Cullinan,  who 
attended  Smith  College  in  1891.  John  J.  Cullinan,  Sr.,  was  born 
February  10,  1840,  in  Ennis,  County  Clare,  Ireland,  and  came  to 
this  country  at  the  age  of  nine  years,  his  parents  settling  in  Spring- 
field, Mass.  He  resided  in  that  city  until  1868,  when  he  removed 
to  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  and  since  1870  has  been  engaged  in  the 
undertaking  business.  His  wife,  Catherine  Keating,  was  born 
April  6,  1835,  in  Kilrush,  County  Clare,  Ireland,  and  died  August 
23,  1904,  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.  She  came  to  America  when  eight 
years  of  age.  Her  brother,  Bernard  Keating,  was  graduated  from 
the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1880,  and  two  nephews,  Thomas  E.  and 
Vincent  L.,  are  graduates  respectively  of  1905  Sheff  and  1913, 
Yale  College. 

Cullinan  was  born  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  September  17,  1864. 
He  was  prepared  at  the  Bridgeport  (Conn.)  High  School  and 
during  the  first  two  years  of  his  college  course  resided  at  home. 


JOHN  J.  CULLINAJT,  JR. 


BIOGRAPHIES 


After  graduation  he  began  work  as  a  reporter  on  the  St.  Louis 
Chronicle,  and  later  did  newspaper  work  in  Bridgeport  for  two 
years.  He  was  later  engaged  for  some  private  tutoring  in  New 
York  City,,  and  during  this  period  attended  lectures  at  the  Columbia 
Law  School.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Connecticut  in 
January,  1891,  and  has  since  devoted  himself  entirely  to  the  prac- 
tice of  law,,  having  associated  with  him  his  brother,  Thomas  M. 
Cullinan. 

He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  school 
board  for  the  last  seven  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  church.  He  was  formerly  a  member  of  the  Algonquin, 
Bridgeport,  Bridgeport  Yacht,  and  Catholic  clubs,  the  latter  of  New 
York,  but  now  retains  membership  in  only  one  organization,  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 

He  was  married  June  8,  1904,  in  Naugatuck,  Conn.,  to  Katherine 
Elizabeth  Kennedy,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Kennedy,  of 
Naugatuck.  They  have  three  children: 

Mary  C.,  born  March  26,  1905. 

Helen,  born  July  25,  1907. 

Paul  H.,  born  September  7,  1912. 


Joseph  Thomas  Cunningham 

Lawyer,  161  Main  Street,  Norwich,  Conn. 

Joseph  T.  Cunningham  is  a  son  of  Thomas  (born  June  11,  1829, 
in  Woodlawn,  Ireland)  and  Margaret  (Murray)  Cunningham 
(born  November  9,  1831,  in  Norwich,  Conn.),  who  were  married 
May  12,  1849. 

Cunningham  was  born  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  January  11,  1865, 
prepared  at  the  Norwich  Free  Academy  and  made  a  colloquy  stand 
in  college. 

He  studied  law  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1889,  and  practiced  in  his  home  town  until  1902.  From  1902  to 
1904  and  again  in  1906-07  he  was  in  business  in  London,  Eng- 
land. During  the  intervening  years,  1904-06,  and  from  1907 
to  1913,  he  was  located  in  New  York  City.  His  work  in  these 
cities  was  in  connection  with  newspapers  and  he  did  some  short 


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JOSEPH  THOMAS  CUNNINGHAM 

story  work.  He  also  sold  American  patent  rights  in  Belfast, 
Ireland,  and  Berlin,  Germany,  and  has  traveled  widely  in  Europe 
in  the  interests  of  business  and  for  recreation. 

In  1913  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  in  Norwich,  being 
compelled  to  do  so  because  of  property  interests  which  demanded 
his  attention. 

He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  church.  He  received  honorable  discharge  from  Company 
C,  Third  Connecticut  Regiment,  and  his  failure  to  enlist  in  the 
Spanish-American  War  was  due  to  defective  eyesight. 

He  has  not  married. 


*John  Hubbard  Curtis 

Died  January  13,  1898 

John  H.  Curtis  was  the  eldest  son  of  Thomas  W.  Thompson  and 
Virginia  H.   (Hubbard)   Curtis.     T.  W.  T.  Curtis  was  born  April 


BIOGRAPHIES 


JOHN    HUBBARD    CuRTIS 


18,  1823,  in  Epsom,  N.  H.,  and  died  March  5,  1888,  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.  He  was  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  1844  and  in  1860  was 
elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  a  teacher,  for  many  years  prin- 
cipal of  the  Hillhouse  High  School,  New  Haven. 

Curtis  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  June  9,  1865.  His  parents 
removed  to  New  Haven  in  his  infancy  and  he  was  prepared  for 
college  there.  He  received  a  first  mathematical  premium,  one-year 
honors  in  philosophy  and  English,  and  a  philosophical  oration 
stand  for  the  course. 

He  remained  for  two  years  at  the  University  as  a  graduate 
student  in  English  literature  and  philosophy,  teaching  in  the  mean- 
time for  one  year  in  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School.  In  September, 
1890,  he  went  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  as  instructor  in  English  and 
German  in  the  University  School;  but  toward  the  close  of  the  year 
a  severe  attack  of  pneumonia  and  grippe  obliged  him  to  resign  his 
position  and  seek  the  benefit  of  a  voyage  around  the  world.  He 
returned  much  improved,  but  never  permanently  regained  his 


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health.  His  trouble,  originally  pulmonary,  developed  into  general 
weakness,  and  a  sojourn  of  nearly  four  years  in  California  failed 
to  restore  him. 

On  January  10,  1898,  he  went  to  a  private  home  for  invalids  in 
Lexington,  Mass.,  for  a  brief  stay,  and  died  there  suddenly  three 
days  later. 

He  was  unmarried. 

*Thomas  Hamlin  Curtis 

Died  February  13,  1910 

Thomas  H.  Curtis  was  born  at  Hallowell,  Maine,  May  9,  1866, 
the  son  of  Thomas  W.  T.  and  Virginia  (Hubbard)  Curtis.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  New  Haven,  where  he  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Hillhouse  High  School. 

The  story  of  his  college  course  is  a  record  of  steady,  honest 
work,  rewarded  with  complete  success.  During  Freshman  year  it 
was  a  matter  for  discussion  whether  Tom,  or  his  older  brother, 
John,  was  to  be  valedictorian  of  the  Class.  It  was  not  long,  how- 
ever, before  Tom  came  to  be  regarded  as  the  certain  winner  of  the 
honor.  And  when  the  expected  ultimately  came  to  pass  and  the 
valedictory  was  awarded  to  him,  his  classmates  recalled,  as  it  were, 
their  judgment  of  long  ago,  that  he  was  beyond  question  the  right 
man.  For  in  him  exceptional  ability  was  backed  by  a  sturdiness 
of  character  and  firmness  of  purpose  which  made  him  wholly 
willing  to  accept  sacrifice  as  the  price  of  achievement. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute 
of  Technology,  to  prepare  himself  more  completely  for  his  chosen 
profession  of  engineering.  The  scene  of  his  active  practice  was 
the  Northwest,  where  he  was  for  a  number  of  years  chief  engineer 
of  the  Astoria  &  Columbia  River  Railroad  and  of  the  Corvallis 
&  Eastern  Railroad.  He  was  also  treasurer  and  afterwards  vice- 
president  of  the  former  road,  but  in  1906  he  resigned  to  engage  in 
private  practice  of  his  profession  at  Astoria,  later  at  Portland, 
Ore.  It  was  at  Portland  that  he  died,  on  February  13,  1910.  He 
was  buried  at  New  Haven,  the  pallbearers  at  his  funeral  including 
Brownson,  Corwin,  H.  B.  Ferris,  G.  E.  Hill,  Pettee,  Phelps  and 
Scoville. 


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THOMAS   HAMLIK   CURTIS 


He  was  married  on  June  4,  1907,  to  Clarine,  daughter  of  Burton 
G.  and  Sarah  Jane  (Buckingham)  Warner.  She  survives  him,  with 
one  daughter,  Virginia  Hubbard,  born  September  16,  1908.  His 
mother  also  is  still  living,  a  most  devoted  friend  of  the  Class  at 
large  and  of  very  many  of  its  individual  members,  and  the  founder 
of  the  Curtis  Scholarships  in  Yale  College  in  memory  of  her  two 
'87  sons. 

Tom  Curtis  was  a  strong  man,  in  body,  mind,  and  character. 
He  always  met  a  task  or  an  emergency  in  the  strong  man's  way, 
quietly  but  without  fear  of  the  issue.  He  was  reserved  and  self- 
contained  to  the  last  degree,  a  man  of  action  rather  than  of  words ; 
but  in  every  act,  physical  or  intellectual  or  moral,  one  felt  that  he 
barely  touched  his  great,  latent  store  of  power.  He  was  younger 
than  most  of  the  Class,  a  boy  in  many  respects  even  at  graduation; 
it  was  the  following  years  which  saw  the  development  of  his  youth- 
ful cleverness  as  a  student  into  the  broad  ability  of  a  clear-minded, 
well-trained,  talented  man. 


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He  was  one  of  the  simplest,  most  straightforward  fellows  that 
ever  lived.  His  honesty,  indeed,  was  so  completely  a  part  of  him, 
born  in  the  man,  that  one  never  thought  of  setting  it  down  as  a  fact 
to  his  credit.  But  one  rejoiced  no  less  in  the  sense  that  he  was  to  be 
counted  upon  absolutely,  whatever  happened.  He  was  sure  to  do 
the  thing  that  one  expected  of  him  or  asked  of  him,  and  without 
the  least  consciousness,  apparently,  that  any  other  course  was 
possible.  To  him  it  was  not  possible.  Trustworthiness  was  not 
his  religion,  but  rather  a  life  habit. 

He  was  as  affectionate  by  nature  as  he  was  undemonstrative. 
His  love  for  the  Class  and  his  loyalty  to  Class  and  College  were 
never  overmuch  displayed,  but  it  was  chiefly  because  they  lay  far 
too  deep  for  that.  And  his  was  a  generous  loyalty,  which  always 
wanted  to  know  that  a  classmate  here  or  there  was  successful,  not 
what  failings  he  had  revealed  or  developed.  To  all  the  men  of  the 
Class,  to  all  of  his  friends  he  paid,  quite  simply  and  unconsciously, 
the  tribute  of  believing  them  to  be  as  earnest,  as  strong,  as  free  from 
guile  as  he  was  himself. 

[Prepared  at  the  request  of  the  Secretary  by  Carleton  L. 
Brownson.] 


Henry  Alexander  Dann 

District   Superintendent  of  Schools,   1032  White   Building,  Buffalo,   N.   Y. 
Residence,  Lancaster,  N.  Y. 

Henry  A.  Dann  is  a  son  of  Henry  Porteous  Alexander  and  Mary 
(Hall)  Dann,  who  were  married  September  28,  1851,  and  had 
one  other  child,  a  d1aughter,  Helen  A.  (Dann)  Dawson  (died  in 
November,  1905,  in  Elkhart,  Ind.).  Henry  P.  A.  Dann  was  a 
banker  and  a  railroad  man,  being  connected  with  the  Lake  Shore 
&  Michigan  Southern  B,ailroad  and  the  Erie  Railroad.  Born 
September  1,  1830,  he  attended  the  academy  at  Cooperstown, 
N.  Y.,  and  later  resided  in  New  York,  Ohio  and  Pennsylvania, 
dying  in  Buffalo,  on  November  30,  1887.  He  was  descended  from 
John  Porteous,  who  came  from  England  during  the  Revolutionary 
War,  and  was  the  first  postmaster  of  Little  Falls,  N.  Y.,  having 
his  commission  from  President  Washington.  Mary  (Hall)  Dann, 


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whose  father,,  Thomas  Hall,  came  from  Alnwick,  England,  to 
Morristown,  N.  Y.,  in  1818,  was  born  October  17,  1829,  in 
Sacketts  Harbor,  N.  Y.,  and  died  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  May  23,  1909. 
Dann  was  born  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  December  16,  1865,  but  spent 
his  boyhood  in  Susquehanna,  Pa.,  preparing  for  college  at  Selwyn 
Hall,  Reading,  Pa.  He  received  a  prize  in  mathematics  Freshman 
year,  a  dissertation  Junior  appointment,  an  oration  Senior  appoint- 
ment, and  one-year  honors  in  political  science,  history  and  law  in 
Senior  year.  He  writes: 

"My  dear  Secretary:  There  do  not  seem  to  be  any  very  exciting 
episodes  in  my  life  to  chronicle,  nor  anything  of  much  interest  to 
anyone  except  myself.  My  record  is  a  good  deal  like  that  of  the 
boy  who  started  a  diary:  'Got  up,  washed  and  went  to  bed.' 

"A  few  months  after  graduation  I  entered  the  law  office  in 
Buffalo  of  which  President  Cleveland  was  then  a  member.  I 
learned  enough  law  there  to  pass  the  bar  examination  and  became 
an  attorney-at-law  in  1890.  For  about  a  year  I  had  charge  of 
the  office  work  incidental  to  acquiring  title  to  the  right  of  way 
of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Railroad  from  Buffalo  to  Geneva.  During 
this  time  I  was  secretary  of  the  Buffalo,  Thousand  Islands  &  Port- 
land Railroad  Company.  This  sounds  very  important  but  it  was 
not. 

"I  started  in  for  myself  in  Buffalo  and  have  continued  in  the 
law  ever  since,  but  after  my  election  as  school  commissioner  school 
duties  have  claimed  more  and  more  of  my  attention. 

"In  the  summer  of  1892  I  came  out  to  Lancaster  expecting  to 
stay  through  the  winter  and  behold,  I  have  lived  here  these  twenty 
years.  It  is  a  pleasant  village  ten  miles  from  Buffalo  and  closely 
connected  therewith  by  one  of  Penney's  bum  trolley  lines  and 
other  railroads.  I  have  been  fairly  active  in  town  and  village 
affairs.  Served  six  years  in  the  National  Guard.  Have  interested 
myself  in  amateur  sports,  social  events  and  church  work.  In  short, 
I  have  tried  to  be  a  useful  citizen  and  a  credit  to  Mother  Yale  in 
a  very  humble  way. 

"Whether  I  shall  long  keep  at  my  present  duties  in  the  school 
system  is  doubtful  even  if  my  constituents  are  satisfied  with  my 
administration.  The  work  is  quite  exacting  and  the  compensation 
hardly  commensurate  with  the  qualifications  wanted.  On  the  other 


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HENRY  ALEXANDER  DANN 


hand,  most  of  the  duties  are  congenial,  there  is  much  time  spent  in 
the  open  air,  there  is  considerable  variety  and  above  all,  one  feels 
that  faithfulness  will  benefit  the  little  folks." 

Dann  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  at  Yale  in  1911. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat  and  has  held  minor  offices,  such  as 
assessor,  police  justice  and  village  attorney.  In  1908  he  was 
elected  school  commissioner  for  Erie  County  and  in  1911  district 
superintendent  of  schools  over  the  same  territory.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  65th  Regiment  from  1888  to  1894.  He  has  been  a 
vestryman  of  Trinity  (Episcopal)  Church  since  1892.  He  has 
been  a  member  of  various  local  organizations  and  is  master  of  the 
local  Masonic  Lodge. 

He  was  married  March  31,  1902,  to  Ann  Eliza,  daughter  of 
Oscar  W.  Hamilton,  of  Olean,  N.  Y.  She  died  in  March,  1905, 
leaving  two  children: 

Helen  Alexander,  born  November  13,  1903,  in  Lancaster,  N.  Y. 


814  BIOGRAPHIES 


John  Porteous,  born  in  Lancaster,  who  died  in  August,  1905,  at 
the  age  of  six  months. 

He  was  married  again,  April  2,  1908,  in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.,  to 
Helen,  daughter  of  Rev.  Benjamin  H.  and  Sara  (Farnham)  Abbott. 
She  is  a  niece  of  Dr.  Josiah  Abbott,  Yale  '35,  and  a  cousin  of  John 
Dorrance  Farnham,  Yale  '90. 


John  Caspar  Diehl 

Principal  of  the  Erie  High  School,  Erie,  Pa. 
Residence,  510  Myrtle  Street,  Erie,  Pa. 

John  C.  Diehl  is  a  son  of  Frederick  and  Barbara  Catherine 
(Doll)  Diehl,  who  were  married  February  5,  1857,  and  had  two 
other  children:  George  Frederick  Diehl  and  Minnie  Margaret 
Diehl.  Frederick  Diehl  was  born  in  Germany,  November  15,  1834, 
and  came  to  this  country  in  1851,  residing  in  Buffalo  for  two  years 
and  in  1853  removing  to  Erie,  Pa.,  where  he  has  since  lived.  He 
now  resides  with  his  son,  our  classmate.  He  was  for  many  years 
a  shoe  dealer  but  has  retired  from  business.  Barbara  Catherine 
Doll  was  born  in  Germany  on  April  30,  1836,  her  parents  coming 
to  this  country  the  following  year  and  settling  in  Erie  County, 
Pa.  She  died  February  28,  1910,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Diehl  was  born  in  Erie,  January  12,  1865,  and  has  always 
resided  there.  He  was  prepared  at  the  Erie  High  School  and 
attended  Oberlin  College  for  one  year,  entering  Yale  at  the 
beginning  of  our  Sophomore  year.  At  Yale  he  received  high 
oration  appointments  for  the  course,  one-year  honors  in  philosophy 
and  an  election  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Glee  Club  and  of  the  Pundit  Club. 

He  writes:  "After  graduation  I  became  a  teacher  and  have  been 
'working  at  it'  ever  since.  For  the  first  three  years  I  taught  classics 
and  other  branches  in  the  Erie  High  School.  Since  1890  I  have 
been  principal  of  the  school.  The  enrollment  of  the  school  has 
increased  from  281  to  1255  and  the  faculty  from  8  to  45. 

"I  have  enjoyed  the  work  and  especially  a  close  fellowship  with 
the  boys  and  girls  in  my  charge.  My  nickname  is  'Johnnie' — very 


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CASPAR  DIEHL 


undignified,  but  as  long  as  we  have  'Billy'  Phelps  and  'Teddy  Da 
Roose,'  I  find  myself  in  good  company. 

"My  'side  line'  has  been  music.  For  years  I  led  a  boys'  glee 
club  in  the  school  and  sang  with  the  boys  many  of  the  old  Yale 
songs.  A  church  choir  and  the  Temple  Quartet  (Masonic)  have 
also  claimed  my  time. 

"Of  course  the  most  important  event  in  my  life  was  going  into 
partnership  with  Mrs.  Diehl.  Frederick  arid  Annabel  and  Samuel 
and  Virginia  are  the  delight  of  their  mother  and  'dad.'  Nothing 
gives  me  more  pleasure  than  to  think  that  Frederick  is  now  drinking 
at  the  Pierian  Spring,  where  Billy  Phelps  holds  the  ladle  on  one 
hand  and  Bob  Corwin  on  the  other,  with  Dr.  Ferris  to  counsel 
moderation. 

"Outside  of  the  home  my  chief  interest  in  the  future  is  to  make 
Erie  High  School  one  of  the  best  schools  of  its  kind.  I  have  no 
ambition  to  hoard  a  pile,  but  should  like  to  acquire  as  years  go  by, 
a  quiet  feeling  of  repose  and  not  be  a  target  for  the  remark,  'Lo! 
the  poor  pedagogue  !'  " 


216  BIOGRAPHIES 


Diehl  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  at  Yale  in  1903.  He 
is  Republican  in  politics,,  and  an  elder  in  the  Central  Presbyterian 
Church.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Board  of  Commerce,  a  Mason, 
Knight  Templar  and  Shriner. 

He  was  married  in  Erie,  Pa.,  December  21,  1893,  to  Annie  Belle, 
daughter  of  Samuel  H.  and  Ellen  (Brereton)  Ingham.  They  have 
four  children: 

Frederick  Brereton,  born  January  12,  1895. 

Annabel  Ingham,  born  March  21,  1900. 

Samuel  Ingham,  born  August  20,  1906. 

Virginia  May,  born  May  11,  1913. 

Frederick  B.  Diehl  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1917,  Yale 
College. 


Willard  Robinson  Douglass 

Lawyer,  217  Glendale  Building,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Residence,  116  West  Thirty-eighth  Street,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Willard  R.  Douglass  is  a  son  of  John  Coffey  and  Ellen  Rebecca 
(Robinson)  Douglass,  who  were  married  November  1,  1860.  and 
had  two  other  children:  Harriot  Rebecca  Douglass  (married 
James  E.  Morton,  died  April  5,  1903,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.),  and 
John  Watson  Douglass  (died  July  16,  1867,  in  Leavenworth, 
Kans.).  John  C.  Douglass,  son  of  Watson  and  Isabella  (Coffey) 
Douglass,  was  born  in  Greenfield,  Ohio,  December  13,  1824,  and 
died  February  27,  1908,  in  Leavenworth,  Kans.,  where  he  had 
resided  since  1856.  He  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1853 
and  from  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1857.  Besides  the  practice 
of  his  profession,  he  was  active  as  territorial  superintendent  of 
schools,  Kansas  Territory,  in  1860;  United  States  pension  agent, 
Kansas,  1861  to  1865,  and  at  the  same  time  United  States  com- 
missioner. He  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent.  Ellen  Rebecca 
Robinson,  his  wife,  was  born  January  15,  1828,  in  Attleboro,  Mass., 
and  died  November  8,  1880,  in  Leavenworth,  Kans.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Willard  and  Rebecca  Whiting  (Richards)  Robinson, 
and  was  descended  from  George  Robinson  of  Rehoboth,  Mass. 

Douglass  was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kans.,  December  22,   1865, 


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WlLLARD     ROBINSOK     DOUGLASS 


and  spent  his  boyhood  in  that  town,  preparing  at  the  local  high 
school  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  In  college  he  received 
a  first  dispute  Junior  and  a  second  dispute  Senior  appointment, 
was  chairman  of  the  Yale  Record  board,  and  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  Lacrosse  Team.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club, 
Chi  Delta  Theta,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

He  was  graduated  from  the  Yale  Law  School  in  1889  and  imme- 
diately began  the  practice  of  law  in  Kansas  City.  For  one  year 
he  was  in  the  office  of  Lathrop  (Yale  '69)  &  Smith,  a  firm  which 
in  the  fall  of  1913  celebrated  its  fortieth  anniversary.  In  recording 
the  event  a  Kansas  City  paper  speaks  of  the  Lathrop  office  as  a 
sort  of  training  school  for  the  kind  of  citizens  Kansas  City  needed 
to  bring  it  to  the  front  rank  of  American  cities.  The  following 
year  Douglass  was  associated  with  Frank  P.  Walsh,  who  had  also 
served  his  apprenticeship  in  Mr.  Lathrop's  office,  and  since  then 
has  practiced  his  profession  alone. 

He  has  traveled  considerably,  including  a  wedding  trip  through 


218  BIOGRAPHIES 


England,,  Scotland  and  Ireland  during  the  summer  of  1905.  He 
is  a  Republican  and  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Country  Club, 
the  University  Club  and  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Kansas 
City,  of  which  he  was  first  vice-president  in  1904  and  1910,  and 
president  in  1911. 

He  was  married  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  June  5,  1905,  to  Floyd, 
daughter  of  William  Medill  and  Fannie  (Lathrop)  Smith.  She  is 
a  graduate  of  Wellesley  in  the  Class  of  1897.  Her  brother,  Lathrop 
Smith,  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1904,  and  on  her  mother's  side 
she  is  descended  from  Yale  graduates  since  1720.  Her  grand- 
father was  John  Hiram  Lathrop,  1819,  great-grandfather,  John 
Hosmer  Lothrop,  1787,  great-great-grandfather,  John  Lothrop, 
1762,  and  great-great-great-grandfather,  Rev.  Daniel  Kirtland, 
1720.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Douglass  have  two  sons: 

Lathrop  Smith,  born  September  5,  1907,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Robinson,  born  April  16,  1910,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


Clarence  Clark  Ferris 

Lawyer,  35  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Hartsdale,  Westchester  County,  N.  Y. 

Clarence  C.  Ferris  is  a  son  of  Samuel  Holmes  and  Mary  (Clark) 
Ferris,  who  were  married  December  19,  1861,  and  had  one  other 
son,  Harry  Burr  Ferris,  Yale  '87.  Samuel  H.  Ferris  was  born 
December  12,  1827,  in  Greenwich,  Conn.,  and  died  there  December 
25,  1888,  having  always  lived  in  that  part  of  the  town  formerly 
called  Old  Greenwich,  now  Sound  Beach.  His  first  ancestor  in 
this  country  was  Jeffrey  Ferris,  a  freeman,  of  Boston,  who  moved 
to  Wethersfield  about  1640,  and  was  one  of  the  original  settlers  of 
Greenwich  in  1642.  Mary  (Clark)  Ferris,  a  descendant  of  William 
Clark,  who  came  from  England  to  Haddam  in  1662,  was  born 
April  16,  1838,  in  Haddam,  Conn.,  and  died  October  15,  1886,  in 
Greenwich,  Conn.  She  studied  at  the  New  Britain  Normal  School 
and  before  her  marriage  taught  in  the  public  schools. 

Ferris  was  born  at  Greenwich,  Conn.,  February  15,  1864,  and 
was  prepared  at  the  Hudson  River  Institute,  Claverack,  N.  Y.  In 


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CLARENCE   CLARK    FERRIS 


college  he  received  honors  in  classics  in  Senior  year,  a  second  dis- 
pute Junior  and  a  dissertation  Senior  appointment. 

He  taught  school  in  Colchester  and  Manchester,  Conn.,  for  two 
years  after  graduation  and  then  entered  the  Law  School  of 
Columbia  University.  In  June,  1891,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
and  immediately  began  the  practice  of  his  profession,  continuing 
his  legal  studies  in  the  then  newly  adopted  three-year  course  and 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1892.  He  has  always  practiced 
independently.  He  is  also  president,  treasurer  and  a  director  of 
the  Spuyten  Duyvil  Real  Estate  Company. 

He  is  a  Democrat  but  has  held  no  offices.  He  acted  as  chairman 
of  the  committee  appointed  by  the  Speaker's  Club  to  investigate 
the  existing  provisions  of  the  election  law  in  the  state  of  New  York 
relative  to  direct  nominations  and  primary  elections  and  pending 
and  proposed  legislation  thereon,  which  report  was  adopted  by  the 
club  June  24,  1913.  He  attends  the  Congregational  and  Episcopal 
churches.  He  is  a  member  of  the  National  Arts  Club,  National 


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Democratic  Club  and  is  chairman  of  the  library  committee  and  a 
member  of  the  tariff  reform  committee  of  that  club,  and  the 
Association  of  the  Bar  of  the  City  of  New  York. 

He  was  married  January  14,  1897,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Katherine,  daughter  of  Matthew  Dudek,  a  piano  manufacturer,  and 
Katherine  (Slaba)  Dudek.  Mrs.  Ferris  died  October  17,  1905,  at 
Spuyten  Duyvil,  N.  Y. 

He  married  a  second  time  on  April  16,  1908,  at  New  Rochelle, 
N.  Y.,  Bertha  Vincent,  daughter  of  Edward  Valentine  and  Cora 
(Moulton)  Odell.  They  have  one  sor : 

Richard  Odell,  born  September  14,  1914. 


Harry  Burr  Ferris,  M.D. 

Hunt  Professor  of  Anatomy  and   Head  of  the  Department  of  Anatomy, 
School  of  Medicine,  Yale  University 

Residence,  395  St.  Ronan  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

The  history  of  the  family  of  Harry  B.  Ferris  may  be  found 
under  the  biography  of  his  brother,  Clarence,  just  preceding.  A 
list  of  their  Yale  relatives  follows:  Joshua  Beal  Ferris,  ex-officio 
Fellow,  B.A.  1823;  Arthur  Eugene  Skelding,  '53;  Arthur  Bertram 
Skelding,  '89  S.;  Curtis  Clark  Bushnell,  '91,  Ph.D.  '95;  Harry 
Tristam  Ferris,  '91 ;  Harold  Hathaway  Trusdell,  '04.  H.  B.  Ferris 
is  also  related  by  marriage  to  Dr.  Samuel  Whiting,  1765;  Samuel 
Williston,  M.D.  '80,  Ph.D.  '85;  Richard  Shelton  Kirby,  '96  S. ; 
Archibald  Lamont  Daniels,  Jr.,  Ph.D.  '12;  and  Ralph  Edward 
Goodwin,  '08,  '09  S.,  C.E.  '12. 

Ferris  was  born  at  Greenwich,  Conn.,  May  21,  1865.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  at  Sound  Beach,  Conn.,  and  he  prepared  at  the 
Stamford  High  School.  In  college  he  received  an  oration  Junior 
and  a  high  oration  Senior  appointment  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Intercollegiate  Athletic  Team  and 
the  Class  Crew. 

He  writes:  "Now  for  a  brief  account  of  my  work  and  interests 
since  1887,  during  which  year  I  entered  the  Yale  School  of  Medi- 
cine. In  March,  1890,  I  began  my  career  at  the  New  Haven  Hos- 


GRADUATES 


HARRY   BURR   FERRIS 


pital  as  interne,  continuing  my  medical  studies  at  the  same  time. 
In  June,  1890,  I  received  the  M.D.  degree  (cum  laude). 

"During  my  medical  course,  one  of  the  men  who  greatly  im- 
pressed me  was  Dr.  J.  K.  Thacher,  professor  of  physiology  and 
clinical  medicine.  From  him  I  learned  scientific  method,  enthusiasm 
and  humility.  I  hold  him  in  most  grateful  memory.  In  1891  I 
accepted  the  position  of  instructor  of  anatomy  at  Yale  and  also 
began  the  practice  of  medicine,  which  I  later  gave  up  in  order  to 
devote  my  entire  time  to  teaching.  In  1892  I  was  made  assistant 
professor  of  anatomy  and  histology  and  in  1895  professor  of 
anatomy.  I  have  also  for  several  years  given  courses  in  somatic 
anthropology  to  academic  and  graduate  students. 

"Our  summers  have  been  spent  mainly  in  the  mountains,  Maine 
woods  and  on  the  Atlantic  coast.  Foreign  travel  I  trust  to  be  in 
the  near  future. 

"I  am  now  looking  forward  to  the  time  when  Yale  will  have  such 
adequate  finances  for  the  School  of  Medicine  that  the  anatomical 


BIOGRAPHIES 


department  may  not  only  be  able  to  continue  efficient  teaching,  but 
also  to  more  extensively  assist  in  the  advancement  of  knowledge. 

"Our  twenty-five  year  reunion  was  more  enjoyable  to  me  than 
any  preceding  one  and  I  trust  that  each  recurring  five  years  will 
find  the  members  of  '87  more  and  more  united  in  their  loyalty  to 
one  another  and  to  Yale." 

Ferris  is  a  member  of  the  medical  fraternity,  Nu  Sigma  Nu,  the 
scientific  society,  Sigma  Xi,  is  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  '90  M.,  and 
has  been  president  of  the  Yale  Medical  Alumni  Association  for  the 
past  two  years.  A  complete  list  of  his  publications  is  printed  in  the 
bibliography. 

An  independent  in  politics,  he  usually  votes  the  Republican 
ticket.  He  is  interested  in  the  Organized  Charities,  Bancroft  Foote 
Boys'  Club,  the  Leila  Day  Nursery,  Yale  in  China,  and  all  public 
health  movements.  He  attends  the  United  Church  and  the  Yale 
College  Church. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Anatomists,  American 
Society  of  Zoologists,  American  Naturalists,  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science,  Connecticut  Academy  of  Arts  and 
Sciences,  Connecticut  State  Medical  Society,  New  Haven  County 
Medical  Society,  and  the  New  Haven  Medical  Society,  of  which 
he  has  been  vice-president. 

He  was  married  June  23,  1892,  at  Sound  Beach,  Conn.,  to  Helen 
Whiting,  daughter  of  Gilbert  Hopkins  Ferris,  a  government  con- 
tractor (river  and  harbor),  and  Mary  (Knight)  Ferris.  They  have 
a  son  and  a  daughter: 

Helen  Millington,  Vassar  '15,  born  April  23,  1893. 

Henry  Whiting,  born  May  2,  1899. 

Frederic  Wilson  Francis 

Residence,  179  St.  Mark's  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Frederic  W.  Francis  is  the  son  of  Pratt  and  Adeline  (Hurd) 
Francis,  who  were  married  August  30,  1855,  and  had  one  other 
son,  Arlan  Pratt  Francis.  Pratt  Francis,  born  in  Newington, 
Hartford  County,  Conn.,  September  22,  1831,  and  died  November 
18,  1911,  was  a  farmer  in  Newington.  He  was  of  English  ancestry, 


GRADUATES 


FREDERIC  WILSOX  FRANCIS 

the  family  having  settled  in  Massachusetts  in  1640.  His  wife, 
Adeline  (Hurd)  Francis,  also  of  English  descent,  was  born  in  Avon, 
Conn.,  January  11,  1834. 

Francis  was  born  in  Newington,  October  16,  1863,  and  was 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford  Public  High  School.  He 
received  a  dissertation  appointment  in  Junior  year. 

He  has  not  sent  any  information  regarding  his  occupation  since 
graduation.  He  resides  in  Brooklyn,  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and 
a  member  of  the  Congregational  church. 

He  has  not  married. 

Bernard  Francis  Gaffney 

Lawyer,  338  Main  Street,  New  Britain,  Conn. 
Residence,  47  Vine  Street,  New  Britain,  Conn. 


Bernard  F.   Gaffney,  the  son  of   Charles   and  Ann    (Mulligan) 
Gaffney,  who  were  both  born  in  Ireland,  was  born  in  New  Britain, 


BIOGRAPHIES 


BERNARD  FRAKCIS  GAFFNEY 


Conn.,  on  June  23,  1861.  He  was  prepared  at  the  New  Britain 
High  School. 

On  graduation  Gaffney  returned  to  New  Britain,  where  he  has 
remained  continuously  since.  He  studied  law  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1889  and  has  always  practiced  independently 
although  at  the  present  time  three  attorneys  are  associated  with 
him. 

He  has  affiliated  with  the  Democratic  party  except  in  the  cele- 
brated Free  Silver  Campaign.  In  1904,  he  was  nominated  and 
elected  judge  of  probate  for  the  district  of  Berlin,  by  the  Demo- 
crats, and  since  that  time  he  has  been  successively  elected  by  the 
Democrats,  Prohibitionists,  Republicans  and  Progressives.  Prior 
to  that  time  he  had  served  as  attorney  for  the  city  of  New  Britain 
and  attorney  for  the  town  of  New  Britain,  and  had  been  appointed 
on  different  charter  commissions  for  the  revision  of  the  charter  of 
New  Britain.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Consolidated  School 
Committee  for  many  years  and  is  now  the  president,  and  since  1906 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Taxation  of  the  city. 


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He  is  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church  and  belongs  to  a 
number  of  fraternal  organizations. 

He  was  married  June  28,  1894,  to  Alice  Lee,  daughter  of  John 
and  Jane  (Ford)  Sherlock.  Mrs.  Gaffney  is  a  graduate  of  the 
State  Normal  School.  They  have  had  five  children,  four  of  whom 
are  now  living: 

Bernard  Donald,  born  April  6,  1897. 

Cyril  Francis,  born  October  18,  1900. 

Leo  Vincent,  born  April  14,  1903. 

Alice,  born  June  17,  1904. 

One  child  died  in  infancy,  Charles  F.  Gaffney,  eighteen  months 
old. 

Robert  Alexander  Gardiner 

Manager  of  Estates 

Residence,  Langley,  Liss,  Hampshire,  England 
Union   Club,  New  York  City 

Robert  A.  Gardiner  is  a  son  of  David  Lion  and  Sarah  Gardiner 
(Thompson)  Gardiner,  who  had  two  other  children:  David  Gardi- 
ner and  Sarah  Diodati  Gardiner.  David  L.  Gardiner,  born  in  New 
York  City  and  died  there,  May  9,  1892,  was  graduated  at  Princeton 
in  1836  and  was  a  lawyer  by  profession.  He  served  as  an  aide- 
de-camp  to  President  John  Tyler.  He  was  descended  from  Lion 
Gardiner,  who,  with  his  wife  and  maid  servant,  arrived  at  Boston 
November  28,  1635,  from  England,  in  his  own  boat,  a  North  Sea 
barque  of  25  tons.  He  commanded  Saybrook  Fort  from  1635  to 
1639,  when  he  bought  Gardiner's  Island  from  Indians.  This  was 
the  first  English  settlement  in  New  York  State.  James  II  made  it 
a  lordship  manor  and  Queen  Anne  declared  it  an  "independent 
plantation,"  independent  of  New  York  and  Connecticut,  to  make 
its  own  laws,  etc.  This  is  the  only  manor  which  has  remained 
intact  in  America,  the  present  proprietor,  a  cousin  of  our  classmate, 
being  the  thirteenth  lord  of  the  manor.  Sarah  Gardiner  (Thomp- 
son) Gardiner  was  born  on  Gardiner's  Island,  N.  Y.,  and  is  of  the 
same  ancestry  as  her  husband. 

Gardiner  was  born  at  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y., 
October  16,  1863.  He  attended  schools  in  Switzerland  and  France 


BIOGRAPHIES 


ROBERT  ALEXANDER  GARDIXER 


and  was  prepared  by  a  private  tutor  in  New  Haven,  where  he 
resided  at  the  time  of  entering  college.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Senior  Prom  Committee  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon.  He  writes: 

"As  for  my  time,  I  divide  it  between  London  and  New  York. 
I  manage  seven  large  estates  in  America  and  consequently  am 
obliged  to  be  there  about  every  seven  or  eight  months,  to  look  after 
them.  In  these  days  of  cablegrams,  however,  I  find  that  I  can  do 
a  lot  of  business  from  this  side.  Here  I  can  judge  better,  at  a 
distance,  than  in  New  York  where  one  cannot  but  be  influenced  by 
Wall  Street  sentiment,  which  is  not  always  correct. 

"I  regret  not  having  taken  the  posts  offered  me  in  the  Diplomatic 
Service,  as  I  consider  diplomacy  the  most  interesting  career  a 
gentleman  can  follow.  It  would  have  suited  me,  as  I  always  spoke 
French  as  well  as  English. 

"I  am  pleased  to  hear  that  the  Class  reunion  was  a  great  success. 
Yale  University  always  seemed  like  a  school  to  me,  as  I  never 
lived  in  the  college  but  at  home  with  my  parents. 


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"The  other  day  (1913)  I  had  the  honor  of  being  the  only  Ameri- 
can outside  the  diplomatic  circle  attending  the  first  court  given  by 
their  majesties  at  Buckingham  Palace.  My  wife,  who  is  Irish,  had 
attended  many  courts  before  our  marriage. 

"You  ask  whether  a  presentation  at  the  Court  of  St.  James  means 
much.  I  suppose  it  must,  as  I  was  the  only  one,  out  of  hundreds 
who  had  applied  to  our  late  ambassador,  whom  he  wished  to  be 
presented,  although  I  had  not  the  honor  of  knowing  him.  The 
following  day  I  was  made  a  member  of  the  most  important  clubs  in 
Mayfair." 

Gardiner  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  interested  in  various  chari- 
ties and  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Union  Club  of  New  York,  the  American  Geographi- 
cal Society,  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  New  York,  and  the  Travelers 
Club  of  Paris. 

He  was  married  in  London,  England,  on  February  22,  1909,  to 
Nora  Loftus,  of  Mount  Loftus,  Kilkenny,  Ireland.  They  have  two 
children : 

Alexandra  Diodati,  born  February  7,  1910. 

Robert  David  Lion,  born  February  25,  1911. 


Andrew  Frink  Gates 

Lawyer,  11  Central  Row,  Hartford,  Conn. 
Residence,  12  Willard  Street,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Andrew  F.  Gates  is  a  son  of  William  Frederick  and  Ellen  Maria 
(Ford)  Gates,  who  had  three  other  children:  Frederick,  Julia 
Maria  (married  Charles  Larrabee,  Jr.,  of  Windham,  Conn.)  and 
Arthur  William  Gates.  William  Frederick  Gates  was  born  in  1836 
in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  and  is  a  son  of  William  Pitt  and  Julia  Maria 
(Frink)  Gates.  He  is  descended  from  Stephen  Gates,  who  came 
from  Hingham,  England,  to  Hingham,  Mass.,  in  the  Diligent,  of 
Ipswich,  in  1638,  accompanied  by  his  wife,  Ann,  and  two  children. 

Gates  was  born  October  22,  1862,  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  and  was 
prepared  at  the  Natchung  High  School.  In  college  he  received  a 
second  prize  in  English  composition  and  first  colloquy  Junior  and 
Senior  appointments,  was  business  manager  of  the  Yale  Literary 


BIOGRAPHIES 


ANDREW  FRINK  GATES 

Magazine  and  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club,  Chi  Delta  Theta  and 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

He  graduated  from  the  Yale  School  of  Law  in  1889,  since  which 
time  he  has  practiced  in  Hartford.  He  has  been  active  in  Republi- 
can politics  and  has  held  various  public  offices,  among  them  assist- 
ant clerk  of  the  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives  in  1889, 
clerk  of  the  House  in  1891  and  1893,  and  clerk  of  the  Senate  in 
1895.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  from  1892  to 
1895  and  from  1895  to  1898  he  was  superintendent  of  schools  of 
Hartford.  He  was  tax  commissioner  of  the  State  from  1901  to 
1905,  and  in  that  year  he  was  made  chairman  of  the  state  board  of 
railroad  commissioners,  from  which  position  he  resigned  in  1910. 
From  1902  to  1904  he  was  chairman  of  the  Republican  State 
Central  Committee.  Since  1910  he  has  practiced  insurance  law  and 
legislation  relating  to  insurance  almost  exclusively. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Hartford  Club  and  the  Republican  Club 
of  Hartford. 

He  was  married  November  9,  1893,  to  Alice  Louise,  daughter  of 


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Dr.   John   H.   and   Elizabeth    (Bell)    Welch,   of   Hartford.      They 
have  two  children: 

Elizabeth  Welch,  born  November  11,  1895,  in  Hartford. 

Margaret  Welch,  born  August  28,  1900,  in  Hartford. 


*John  Minor  Gillespie,  M.D. 

Died  February  20,  1908 

John  M.  Gillespie  was  a  son  of  James  Metcalf  and  Frances  Lintot 
(Denny)  Gillespie,  who  were  married  April  22,  1856,  and  had  three 
other  children,  all  of  whom  died  in  childhood.  James  M.  Gillespie, 
son  of  John  Field  and  Susan 
(Smith)  Gillespie,  was  born  in 
Natchez,  Miss.,  March  6,  1832, 
and  died  October  17,  1892,  in 
Rochester,  N.  Y.  He  was  gradu- 
ated at  Yale  in  1853,  and  studied 
law  for  one  year  at  Harvard 
University.  He  then  returned 
home,  and  on  his  father's  death 
in  1855  began  cotton  planting 
on  a  large  plantation  which  he 
inherited  in  Tensas  Parish,  La., 
where  he  continued  throughout 
his  life.  He  repeatedly  declined 
nomination  to  political  office,  ac- 
cepting only  such  public  trusts 
as  would  enable  him  to  promote 
the  direct  welfare  of  the  com- 
munity. His  wife,  Frances  Lin- 
tot  Denny,  was  the  daughter  of 
Dr.  James  Denny,  of  Adams 
County,  Miss. 

Gillespie  was  born  February  12,  1866,  in  Natchez,  Miss.,  and 
was  prepared  for  Yale  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.  In 
college  he  received  dispute  appointments,  was  manager  of  the 
Freshman  Nine,  and  was  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  Psi 
Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 


JOHN   MINOR  GILLESPIE 


BIOGRAPHIES 


After  graduation  he  entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons, Columbia,  and  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.D.  in 
1891.  He  then  returned  south  and  began  to  assume  the  responsi- 
bilities of  the  large  cotton  plantations  operated  by  his  father,  prac- 
ticing his  profession  in  this  connection  among  the  people  employed 
by  them.  For  a  few  years  previous  to  his  death  he  was  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Gillespie  &  Young,  Ltd.,  doing  a  cotton  brokerage 
business  in  New  Orleans,  having  formed  this  partnership  with 
George  Young,  '87. 

He  died  at  his  home  plantation,  near  Newellton,  La.,  February 
20,  1908,  and  was  buried  at  Mount  Carmel  Cemetery,  near  Natchez. 

He  was  not  married. 

[A  more  complete  sketch  of  his  life  and  activities  may  be  found 
in  the  Vicennial  Record,  pages  112-114.] 


*Clarence  Glisan,  M.D. 

Died  August  22,  1893 


CLARENCE   GLISAK 


Clarence  Glisan,  son  of  Rod- 
ney Glisan,  M.D.,  was  born  in 
Portland,  Ore.,  January  21, 
1865.  He  was  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  New  Haven. 

After  a  year's  study  of  medi- 
cine in  Willamette  University, 
at  Salem,  Ore.,  and  in  his 
father's  office,  he  entered,  in  the 
fall  of  1888,  the  Middle  Class 
of  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  1890, 
receiving  an  appointment  by 
competitive  examination  on  the 
surgical  staff  of  Bellevue  Hos- 
pital. After  an  interval  spent 
at  home,  he  returned  to  this 


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position  at  Bellevue  on  May  1,  1891,  and  in  the  summer  of  1892 
settled  permanently  in  practice  in  his  native  city.  He  died  there, 
after  a  brief  illness  from  rupture  of  the  bowels,  August  22,  1893. 

He  was  unmarried. 

A  brother,  Rodney  Glisan,  was  graduated  from  Yale  in  1890. 

[Resolutions,  prepared  upon  his  death,  are  printed  on  page  26 
of  the  Sexennial  Record.] 


Edward  Winchester  Goodenough,  M.D. 

Physician  and  Surgeon,  44  Leavenworth  Street,  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Edward  W.  Goodenough  is  a  son  of  Arthur  and  Hannah  (Brett) 
Goodenough,  who  were  married  July  11,  1864,  and  had  six  other 
children,  four  daughters  and  t\vo  sons:  Mary  Alida  Goodenough, 
Mount  Holyoke  '86,  Francetta  Jane  Goodenough,  Wheaton  Semi- 
nary, Helen  Evelyn  Goodenough,  Mount  Holyoke  '91,  Giles  Fred- 
erick Goodenough,  Yale  '93,  Silas  Hurlbut  Goodenough,  accidentally 
killed  in  November,  1893,  while  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1895, 
Yale  College,  Gertrude  Lillian  Goodenough,  Mount  Holyoke  '01. 
Rev.  Arthur  Goodenough,  born  May  13,  1838,  in  Jefferson,  N.  Y., 
the  son  of  Giles  C.  and  Alida  (Cooper)  Goodenough,  is  a  Congre- 
gational clergyman,  in  Winchester  Center,  Conn.,  where  he  served 
on  the  Board  of  Education  for  twenty  years.  He  was  graduated  at 
Yale  College  in  1862  and  from  the  School  of  Religion  in  1865. 
Through  his  father  he  is  a  descendant  of  Benjamin  Goodenough, 
an  Englishman,  who  settled  in  New  Hampshire  early  in  the  eight- 
eenth century,  while  his  mother  was  of  Dutch  ancestry  through 
Peter  Cooper  or  Van  der  Kuyper,  who  came  from  Holland  in  1630. 
Hannah  (Brett)  Goodenough  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  February 
18,  1833,  the  daughter  of  Cyrus  Brett,  who  was  of  English  and 
Welsh  ancestry,  a  descendant  of  Priscilla  and  John  Alden.  Her 
mother,  Mary  Ann  Winchester,  traces  her  ancestry  to  Peter  Aspin- 
wall,  1661,  and  Lieutenant  Griffith  Crafts,  who  came  from  England 
early  in  the  seventeenth  century. 

Goodenough  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  June  12,  1865, 
Class  Boy  of  Yale  '62.  His  boyhood  was  spent  in  Ellsworth, 


BIOGRAPHIES 


EDWARD  WINCHESTER  GOODENOUGH 

Roxbury  and  Winchester,,  Conn.,  and  he  prepared  at  a  private 
school  in  Windsor  Locks,  Conn.,  under  J.  W.  Beach.  In  college 
he  received  a  second  dispute  appointment  and  honors  in  sciences  in 
Senior  year. 

In  1889  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  Doctors  North  and 
Axtelle,  of  Waterbury,  but  the  following  year  acted  as  assistant 
principal  of  the  Waterbury  High  School.  He  then  took  the  course 
in  the  Yale  Medical  School,  graduating  in  1893  cum  laude,  and 
spent  one  year  as  assistant  surgeon  in  the  Soldiers  and  Sailors 
Home,  Quincy,  111.,  before  establishing  himself  in  Waterbury, 
where  he  has  since  practiced  medicine  and  surgery.  Since  Decem- 
ber 1,  1914,  he  has  limited  his  practice  to  the  care  and  treatment 
of  children.  He  writes : 

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at  the  New  York  Post  Graduate  and  New  York  Polyclinic,  Mount 
Sinai  Dispensary  and  Harvard  Summer  School — and  for  the  last 
five  years  have  been  clinical  assistant  in  pediatrics  in  the  Yale 
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GRADUATES  233 


"My  special  recreation  is  the  study  of  children  and  child  devel- 
opment. My  school  work  has  been  with  the  aim  constantly  in 
view  to  raise  the  physical  and  moral  status  of  the  average  child. 
This  development  of  the  poor  city  child  is,  as  I  see  it,  the  sanest 
basis  for  the  destruction  of  the  city  slum  and  development  of  an 
evolutional  millenium. 

"There  is  danger  in  the  constant  effort  to  stand  up  for  the  under 
dog  and  to  seek  out  the  work  which  others  will  not  do.  In  doing 
the  little  things  we  lose  sometimes  the  close  association  with  others 
who  lead  in  larger  ways  this  developmental  age.  Social  service  is 
a  pleasure — though  often  a  thankless  task — but  it  is  sometimes 
hard  on  your  family. 

"Somehow  I  get  inspiration  from  both  Kent  and  William  Howard 
Taft — strange  combination — from  Pinchot  and  Irving  Fisher,  from 
Anson  Phelps  Stokes  and  Billy  Phelps — if  he  had  only  taught  me 
English." 

Goodenough  is  an  Independent  Republican,  was  commissioner  of 
education  in  Waterbury  in  1900-01,  and  medical  inspector  of  schools 
and  city  supervisor  in  1910-11.  He  has  served  as  chairman  of  the 
committee  on  medical  inspection  of  schools  of  the  Connecticut  State 
Medical  Society  since  June,  1911,  was  an  incorporator  of  the 
Waterbury  Boys'  Club,  and  for  six  years  a  director  of  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.,  during  three  years  serving  on  the  finance  committee  and  a 
part  of  the  time  as  chairman.  He  is  a  deacon  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Waterbury,  and  president  of  the  Men's  League 
of  this  church.  During  1895-96  he  was  superintendent  of  the 
Sunday  school  and  for  six  years  was  a  member  of  the  finance  com- 
mittee. For  some  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Waterbury  Club 
and  the  Yale  Club  of  New  York  City.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Waterbury  Country  Club,  Harmony  Lodge,  42,  F.  A.  M.,  Eureka 
Chapter,  Clark  Commandery  7,  Comstock  Lodge  13,  K.  of  P., 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  Royal  Arcanum,  Nu  Sigma  Nu,  etc.,  Mattatuck  Histori- 
cal Society,  American  and  Waterbury  Medical  Associations,  Con- 
necticut Medical  Society  and  the  New  England  Pediatric  Society. 

He  was  married  June  1,  1897,  to  Edith  Sunderland,  daughter  of 
Leroy  Sunderland  and  Sarah  Jane  (DeLancey)  White.  They 
have  one  son: 

Robert  DeLancey,  born  August  30,  1900,  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 


834 


BIOGRAPHIES 


MADISON  GRANT 


Madison  Grant 

Lawyer,  11  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  22  East  Forty-ninth  Street,  New  York  City 

Madison  Grant  is  a  son  of  Gabriel  and  Caroline  A.  (Manice) 
Grant,  who  were  married  in  1863,  and  had  three  other  children: 
DeForest  Grant,  Yale  '91,  Norman  Grant,  and  Kathrin  Manice 
Grant,  who  died  in  June,  1909.  Dr.  Gabriel  Grant  was  born  in 
Newark,  N.  J.,  in  1826,  and  died  in  New  York  City  on  November 
8,  1909.  He  received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  at  Williams  College  in 
1846  and  M.D.  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New 
York,  in  1850.  He  practiced  his  profession  with  success  and  was  a 
health  commissioner  of  New  York  City.  His  service  in  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac  and  other  troops  as  assistant  surgeon,  surgeon, 


GRADUATES  235 


brigade  and  division  surgeon,  earned  for  him  the  rank  of  major 
and  Congress  conferred  upon  him  a  medal  "for  most  distinguished 
gallantry."  His  wife,  Caroline  A.  Manice,  is  a  daughter  of  De- 
Forest  Manice,  a  benefactor  of  Yale.  She  is  of  English  and  French 
Huguenot  descent. 

Grant  was  born  in  New  York  City,  November  19,  1865,  and  was 
prepared  for  college  in  private  schools  and  with  tutors  in  New 
York  and  Germany.  He  received  first  colloquy  appointments  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Record  Board,  the  University  Club  and 
Psi  Upsilon. 

He  continued  his  work  at  Columbia  after  graduation  and  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1890,  since  which  time  he  has  practiced  law 
independently  in  New  York  City.  He  is  also  widely  known  as  a 
traveler,  hunter,  explorer,  naturalist  and  author.  He  is  the  founder 
and  now  holds  the  positions  of  manager,  secretary  and  chairman  of 
the  executive  committee  of  the  New  York  Zoological  Society,  which 
manages  the  New  York  Zoological  Park  and  the  New  York 
Aquarium.  Through  his  untiring  efforts  in  1910  an  endowment  was 
raised  for  this  work,  which  had  been  previously  carried  on  chiefly 
by  individual  gifts  of  the  members  of  the  society.  His  keen  interest 
in  natural  history  has  received  recognition  in  the  name  Rangifer 
granti,  or  Grant's  caribou,  given  to  a  species  found  in  Alaska.  He 
is  a  trustee  of  the  American  Museum  of  Natural  History,  and  a 
director  in  various  financial  and  manufacturing  corporations. 

He  is  a  Republican  and  has  served  for  several  years  as  a  member 
of  Bronx  Parkway  Commission,  at  present  being  president  of  the 
commission.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church.  He  is  vice- 
president  of  the  American  Prison  Society  and  of  the  Immigration 
League,  and  secretary  and  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  Boone  and  Crockett  Club.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New  York 
Bar  Association,  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the  Military  Order 
of  the  Loyal  Legion,  the  New  York  Geographical  Society,  the 
Union,  University,  Century,  Tuxedo  and  Turf  and  Field  clubs 
(governor),  and  the  Down  Town  Association. 
He  has  not  married. 


236 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Robert  Beers  Gray 

Residence,  37  Astor  Place,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 


ROBERT  BEERS  GRAY 


Robert  B.  Gray  was  born  in 
Monroe,  Conn.,  October  7,  1864, 
and  prepared  at  the  Birmingham 
High  School,  the  family  resi- 
dence being  in  that  town.  He 
attained  first  dispute  rank  for 
the  work  of  his  college  course. 
After  three  years  in  business 
in  New  York  he  entered  the 
New  York  Law  School,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1892. 
He  has  since  practiced  his  pro- 
fession. 

He  was  married  June  14, 
1888,  to  Alice,  daughter  of 
Luther  S.  Bowman  of  Jersey 
City.  They  have  one  son: 

Robert  B.,  Jr.,  born  Novem- 
ber 26,  1893,  in  Jersey  City, 
N.  J. 


George  Henry  Guernsey,  M.D. 

Manager  of  the  Drug  Department,  Lancaster  Cooperative  Association, 
Lancaster,  Calif. 

Residence,  Claremont,  Calif. 

George  H.  Guernsey  is  the  son  of  George  Henry  Guernsey,  who 
was  born  in  Westport,  Conn.,  in  1838,  and  was  killed  at  the  Battle 
of  Gettysburg,  in  1863.  The  family  had  always  resided  in  New 
England,  ancestors  having  come  from  England  to  Milford  in 
1623  (?).  Our  classmate's  mother,  Mary  (Newell)  Guernsey,  was 
born  in  Ireland  in  1836  and  died  in  Shelton,  Conn.,  in  1901. 

Guernsey  was  born  in  Westport,  Conn.,  April  6,  1862,  and  was 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Staples  Academy,  Easton,  Conn. 


GRADUATES 


Entering  Yale  with  the  Class  of  '86,  he  spent  only  Senior  year 
with  '87. 

On  graduation  he  taught  school  in  Easton  and  other  Connecticut 
towns  until  1894,  when  he  entered  the  Medical  Department  of  the 
University  of  Georgia  at  Augusta,  graduating  there  with  the  degree 
of  M.D.  in  1897.  He  practiced  medicine  in  Hendricks,  Ga.,  for 
some  time,  and  about  1902  took  a  postgraduate  course  in  medicine 
in  Philadelphia.  The  following  year,  on  account  of  his  wife's 
health,  he  moved  to  California,  where  he  has  been  engaged  in  the 
drug  business.  For  six  years  he  was  with  the  R.  F.  Billings  Phar- 
macy of  Corona,  Calif.,  and  has  but  recently  resigned  this  position 
to  become  manager  of  the  drug  department  of  the  Lancaster  Co- 
operative Association. 

He  is  a  Progressive  Republican,  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church  and  Modern  Woodmen  of  America. 

He  was  married  August  8,  1888,  to  Ella,  daughter  of  David  and 


GEORGE  HENRY  GUERNSEY 


288  BIOGRAPHIES 


Julia  (Turney)  Edwards  of  Easton,  Conn.  They  have  two 
children : 

Mabel,  Pomona  College  '12,  born  July  20,  1889,  now  assistant 
instructor  in  the  department  of  zoology,  Pomona  College. 

John  Edwards,  Pomona  '12,  born  September  28,  1891,  at  present 
a  graduate  student  at  the  University  of  California. 


William  Jessup  Hand 

Member  of  the  Law  Firm,  Alfred  Hand  &  William  J.  Hand,  607-8-9 
Peoples  National  Bank  Building,  Scranton,  Pa. 

Residence,  801  Webster  Avenue,  Scranton,  Pa. 

William  J.  Hand  is  a  son  of  Alfred  and  Anna  (Jessup)  Hand, 
who  were  married  September  11,  1861,  and  had  five  other  children: 
Horace  Edward  Hand,  Yale  '84,  Alfred  Hand,  Jr.,  Yale  '88,  Ph.B. 
'89,  M.D.  University  of  Pennsylvania  '92,  Miles  Tracy  Hand, 
Williams  '94,  M.E.  Cornell  '97,  Harriet  Jessup  Hand,  Wellesley 
'87,  and  Charlotte  Chapman  Hand,  Wellesley  '92.  Alfred  Hand, 
born  March  26,  1835,  in  Honesdale,  Pa.,  the  son  of  Ezra  and 
Catharine  (Chapman)  Hand,  was  graduated  at  Yale  College  in 
1857.  He  at  once  began  the  study  of  law  with  William  and  William 
H.  Jessup,  in  Montrose,  Pa.,  in  1860  opening  an  office  in  partner- 
ship with  them  in  Scranton.  He  was  appointed  additional  judge 
of  the  Eleventh  Judicial  District  of  Pennsylvania  in  1879;  assigned 
to  the  Forty-fifth  Judicial  District  when  formed,  and  was  elected 
judge  for  a  term  of  ten  years  from  January  1,  1880.  In  July, 
1888,  he  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Penn- 
sylvania by  Governor  Beaver  to  fill  an  unexpired  term,  serving 
until  January,  1889,  when  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  and  in 
1890  formed  a  partnership  with  his  son,  our  classmate.  He  was 
married  a  second  time  to  Helen  Elizabeth  Sanderson,  of  Beloit, 
Wis.,  by  whom  he  had  three  children,  a  son  and  two  daughters. 
On  his  father's  side,  Alfred  Hand  is  descended  from  John  Hand, 
who  emigrated  from  Stanstede,  England,  in  1640,  and  settled  with 
the  colony  at  Southampton,  Long  Island,  and  afterwards  assisted 
in  founding  Easthampton.  His  mother  was  descended  from  Robert 
Chapman,  a  Puritan,  who  emigrated  from  Hull,  England,  in  1635, 


GRADUATES 


WILLIAM  JESSUP  HAND 


with  the  company  sent  by  Lords  Say  and  Sfte,  and  others  interested 
in  the  Connecticut  Patent,  to  erect  a  fort  at  the  mouth  of  the 
Connecticut  River,  and  later  helped  to  found  Saybrook.  He  was 
for  many  years  commissioner  for  Saybrook,  town  clerk,  and  was 
elected  deputy  to  the  General  Court  forty-three  times,  and  assistant 
nine  times.  He  was  also  captain  of  the  Train-Band.  Anna  (Jes- 
sup)  Hand,  youngest  daughter  of  Judge  William  Jessup,  Yale 
1815,  was  born  September  5,  1840,  in  Montrose,  Pa.,  and  died 
April  25,  1872,  in  Scranton,  Pa.  Her  ancestors  were  English 
people,  who  settled  at  the  eastern  end  of  Long  Island  in  the 
seventeenth  century,  at  Easthampton  and  North  Sea.  Three  of 
Mrs.  Jessup's  brothers  were  graduated  at  Yale:  William  Huntting 
Jessup,  1849,  Rev.  Henry  Harris  Jessup,  1851,  and  Rev.  Samuel 
Jessup,  1860. 

Hand  was  born  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  July  26,  1866,  and  was  pre- 
pared at  the  School  of  the  Lackawanna,  Scranton,  where  his  prin- 
cipal instructor  was  Walter  H.  Buell,  Yale  '80,  now  of  the  Hotch- 


240  BIOGRAPHIES 


kiss  School.  In  college  he  received  a  Berkeley  premium  of  the 
first  grade,  high  oration  appointments  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Senior  Prom  Committee  and  of 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1890  and  has  since  practiced  law 
in  partnership  with  his  father  in  Scranton,  Pa.  He  is  president  of 
the  American  Chair  Manufacturing  Company,  of  Hallstead,  Pa. 

He  was  a  Republican  until  the  1912  Chicago  Convention  when 
he  became  a  Progressive.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Common  Coun- 
cil of  Scranton  during  1892-93,  and  of  the  Scranton  Board  of 
Control  (School  Board)  in  1900.  He  has  been  a  director  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  for  twenty-four  years,  serving  as  president  for  two 
years,  and  is  president  of  the  Lackawanna  Valley  Evangelistic 
Association.  He  is  an  elder  and  clerk  of  session  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Scranton,  superintendent  of  the  Sabbath 
School,  and  a  member  of  the  Lackawanna  Presbytery's  Executive 
Committee  on  work  among  people  of  foreign  speech.  He  writes: 

"After  graduating  I  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Jessup  &  Hand 
and  later  in  my  father's  office,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
Lackawanna  County  in  March,  1890,  and  to  the  bar  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Supreme  Court  in  1892.  After  admission  I  formed  a 
partnership  with  my  father  in  1890,  which  still  exists  in  name, 
although  he  has  retired  from  active  practice.  My  practice  has 
included  not  only  state  courts,  but  federal,  and  I  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  in  1910. 

"Have  not  traveled  very  extensively — spent  a  few  weeks  in 
Italy,  France  and  England  on  my  wedding  trip;  have  been  west  to 
Colorado  and  New  Mexico,  principally  on  business  trips;  to  Ber- 
muda once  on  a  health  trip;  have  been  south  to  Pinehurst,  N.  C., 
and  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  Chattanooga,  Tenn.  (where  I  got  my  first 
vivid  impression  of  what  the  Civil  War  must  have  been  on  the 
battlefields  at  Chickamauga  and  Missionary  Ridge).  Have  spent 
most  of  my  summer  vacations  in  the  White  Mountains,  Nova  Scotia 
and  the  Maine  coast.  Have  been  going  for  a  number  of  years 
past  to  Seal  Harbor,  Mt.  Desert,  where  I  have  met  Ludington 
(C.  H.),  Billy  McCormick,  Howard  Tracy,  Billy  Thacher  and 
other  Yale  men. 

"Used  to  play  golf  considerably,  and  have  some  cups  at  home  won 


GRADUATES  241 


at  country  club  matches,  but  lately  have  given  it  up,  and  about 
my  only  recreation  is  motor-boating  on  my  summer  vacation.  Am 
so  occupied  with  church  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  that  I  get  little 
opportunity  for  reading  outside  that  pertaining  to  my  profession. 

"Am  trying,  along  with  a  host  of  Yale  men  whom  I  know,  to 
exemplify  in  a  modest  way  the  Yale  spirit  of  public  service,  and 
to  uphold  the  highest  standards  of  my  profession.  It  is  my  aim  to 
be  known  in  the  community  where  I  live  as  a  Christian  gentleman, 
who  is  trying  to  measure  up  reasonably  to  his  duties  and  responsi- 
bilities in  all  the  varied  relations  of  life;  and  also  to  hand  down  to 
my  son  the  legacy  of  an  upright  life  and  unsullied  reputation, 
which  my  forbears,  who  had  their  part  in  founding  and  supporting 
this  great  republic,  have  transmitted  to  me." 

He  was  married  January  12,  1893,  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  to  Caroline 
Bailey,  daughter  of  Thomas  Miner  Smith,  a  contractor,  and  Lucy 
(Chambers)  Smith.  They  have  one  son: 

Alfred,  born  March  18,  1898,  in  Scranton,  Pa. 


*Henry  Earl  Hard 

Died  September  26,  1908 

Henry  E.  Hard,  son  of  Philo  and  Emma  (Earl)  Hard,  was  born 
January  1,  1862,  in  Ottawa,  111.,  but  in  1866  the  family  moved  to 
New  Orleans,  La.,  where  his  father  held  a  position  in  the  United 
States  Custom  House.  Finishing  the  course  in  the  high  school 
there  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  he  later  went  to  Norwich,  Conn.,  where 
he  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Free  Academy.  Entering  Yale 
with  the  Class  of  '86,  he  left  at  the  end  of  Junior  year,  but  con- 
tinued his  studies  while  teaching  in  Garden  City,  N.  Y.,  and 
graduated  in  1887. 

His  life  after  graduation  was  devoted  to  teaching.  The  first  three 
years  he  taught  at  St.  Paul's  Cathedral  School,  Garden  City,  N.  Y., 
and  then  two  years  at  the  Browning  School  in  New  York  City,  and 
six  years  at  the  Boys'  High  School  of  Brooklyn.  From  there  he 
was  called  in  1898  to  be  principal  of  Public  School  Number  109 
and  then  of  School  Number  78.  He  afterward  organized  and  was 
principal  of  Public  School  Number  149,  the  largest  school  at  the 


BIOGRAPHIES 


time  in  Greater  New  York  and  regarded  as  one  of  the  best  organized 
in  the  city.  While  he  had  charge,  the  school  was  enlarged  from 
fifty-nine  to  ninety-eight  class  rooms. 

During  most  of  his  active  life,  he  found  pleasant  and  useful 
change  of  work  as  organist  and  choirmaster,  serving  in  that  capa- 
city in  St.  Mark's  Church,  Brooklyn,  three  years,  and  in  Christ 
Church,  Bay  Ridge,  thirteen  years. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  September  26,  1908. 

He  had  not  married. 


*Clinton  Larue  Hare 

Died  June  4,  1909 

Clinton  L.  Hare  was  born  November  7,  1864,  at  his  grandfather's 
house  in  Noblesville,  Ind.,  the  son  of  Marcus  L.  and  Julia  A. 
(Haines)  Hare,  whose  home  was  in  Indianapolis,  where  his  boy- 
hood was  passed.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  that  city,  preparing  for  college  at  the  Shortridge  High 
School. 

He  entered  Yale  in  the  fall  of  1883,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  and 
was  graduated  with  the  Class  of  '87.  He  was  an  all-round  athlete, 
evidenced  by  the  fact  that  he  played  on  the  Class  Nine  in  the  fall 
of  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years,  rowed  with  the  Class  crews  of 
Sophomore  and  Junior  years,  and  was  on  the  Class  Lacrosse  Team 
of  Sophomore  year.  In  Junior  year  he  was  a  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity Football  Eleven,  and  in  Senior  year  was  president  of  the 
University  Football  Association.  He  belonged  to  the  Second  Glee 
Club,  the  Chapel  Choir,  the  Yale  University  Club,  and  to  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

On  his  return  from  college  in  the  summer  of  1887,  he  under- 
took the  coaching  of  the  football  eleven  of  Butler  College,  which 
had  the  smallest  attendance  of  any  college  in  the  Indiana  Asso- 
ciation, and  continued  it  with  such  effectiveness  that  his  team  won 
the  state  championship  for  two  successive  years.  Later  he  coached 
the  Purdue  eleven. 

Having  chosen  the  law  for  a  profession,  in  March,  1888,  he 
entered  the  office  of  Harrison,  Miller  &  Elam,  of  Indianapolis,  as  a 


GRADUATES 


CLTXTON  LARUE  HARE 


student,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1890.  During  this  time, 
General  Harrison  was  elected  to  the  presidency  and  Mr.  Miller,  of 
the  firm,  was  made  attorney-general.  About  the  same  time,  Hare 
became  the  attorney  for  the  Board  of  Children's  Guardians,  an 
employment  involving  much  laborious  court  work,  and  much  tact 
and  patience.  He  thereupon  left  the  office  of  his  preceptors  to 
engage  in  active  practice;  but  his  father's  affairs  were  quite  exten- 
sive and  Clinton  felt  obliged  at  once  to  take  up  their  management, 
which  occupied  so  much  of  his  time  that  he  was  unable  to  look 
after  any  law  business  save  that  of  the  board  for  which  he  was 
attorney.  A  member  of  the  Indianapolis  Bar  writes:  "In  the  trial 
of  causes  for  the  board  he  showed  high  ability  as  a  lawyer.  His 
mind  acted  quickly.  He  was  always  thoroughly  prepared.  He 
handled  his  evidence  well.  He  was  a  ready  speaker  and  spoke  with 
clearness  and  force." 

In   November,    1894,   Hare  was   appointed  cashier  to  the  clerk 
of  the  Circuit  Court,  an  office  he  held  for  eight  years,  during  which 


244  BIOGRAPHIES 


time  he  had  full  charge  of  administering  the  affairs  of  all  courts  of 
original  jurisdiction  sitting  in  Indianapolis,  and  was  responsible 
for  the  handling  of  millions  of  dollars  every  year.  There  has  never 
been  the  slightest  criticism  of  his  administration  of  this  great  trust. 

In  1899  he  purchased  a  controlling  interest  in  the  wholesale 
grocery  house  of  J.  C.  Perry  &  Company,  of  Indianapolis,  which 
he  caused  to  be  incorporated  under  the  same  name.  This  concern 
he  controlled  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  and  his  management  of  its 
affairs  was  wholly  successful.  After  leaving  the  circuit  clerk's 
office,  at  the  end  of  the  year  1902,  his  entire  time  was  given  to  the 
management  of  this  concern  and  he  placed  it  in  the  front  rank 
of  the  wholesale  grocery  houses  of  the  state.  Shortly  after  Hare 
connected  himself  with  Perry  &  Company,  he  became  a  member 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Wholesale  Grocers'  Association 
of  the  state,  and  so  continued  until  death.  His  work  on  this  com- 
mittee contributed  largely  to  securing  the  passage  of  the  sales-in- 
bulk  law  and  other  salutary  laws  enacted  at  the  instance  of  this 
association,  of  which,  later,  he  became  president.  His  influence 
among  business  men  and  generally  throughout  the  entire  com- 
munity is  said,  on  the  highest  authority,  to  have  been  very  great 
and  exercised  uniformly  for  the  public  weal. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  devoted  to 
good  works,  contributing  generously  in  time  and  money  to  many 
charities.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican  and  as  such  took  an 
active  part  in  local  affairs. 

He  was  married  October  14,  1891,  to  Marea  Fletcher,  daughter 
of  John  B.  and  Myla  F.  Ritzinger,  of  Indianapolis.  They  had  six 
children,  all  of  whom  are  living: 

Helen,  born  February  5,  1894. 

John  Maurice,  born  February  2,  1897. 

Clinton  Larue,  Jr.,  born  July  19,  1898. 

Robert  Ritzinger,  born  October  15,  1899. 

Myla,  born  March  3,  1903. 

Laura,  born  January  9,  1906. 

March,  1908,  marked  the  beginning  of  an  illness  from  which  he 
suffered  continuously  for  more  than  a  year.  Finally,  on  June  4, 
1909,  after  a  brave  and  patient  struggle,  the  end  came. 

Thus  passed  beyond,  in  the  prime  of  a  well-spent  and  beautiful 


GRADUATES 


life,  our  much-loved  classmate,  Clinton  Larue  Hare,  who  fought 
a  good  fight,  doing  thoroughly  and  successfully  whatever  he  under- 
took. He  was  an  affectionate  husband  and  father,  a  loyal  friend, 
a  good  citizen,  an  honor  to  his  college  and  to  his  Class,  a  Christian 
gentleman. 

[Prepared    at    the    request    of    the    Secretary    by    Richard    S. 
Thomas.] 


Frederic  Wells  Hart 

Residence,  1016  Thirtieth  Street,  Denver,  Colo. 

Frederic  W.  Hart  is  a  son  of  Edward  Selah  and  Jane  Eliza 
(Webster)  Hart,  who  were  married  October  8,  1861,  and  had  one 
other  son:  Edward  Perry  Hart, 
who  died  in  Plainville,  Conn.,  in 
December,  1877.  Edward  S. 
Hart,  a  descendant  of  Stephen 
Hart,  who  settled  in  Massachu- 
setts early  in  the  seventeenth 
century,  coming  from  Braintree, 
England,  was  born  October  8, 
1836,  and  died  in  December, 
1865,  in  Plainville,  Conn.  He 
was  a  carriage  trimmer.  His 
wife,  Jane  Eliza  Webster,  who 
was  born  November  11,  1838, 
in  Plainville,  Conn.,  attended  the 
New  Britain  Normal  School  and 
taught  before  her  marriage. 

Hart  was  born  in  Plainville, 
Conn.,  July  12,  1866,  and  was 
prepared  at  the  Hartford 
(Conn.)  Public  High  School. 
In  college  he  received  a  high 
oration  Junior  and  an  oration 

Senior  appointment,  was  elected     to  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Class  Ivy  Committee.     He  writes : 


FREDERIC    WELLS    HART 


246  BIOGRAPHIES 


"After  graduation  I  took  charge  of  the  Howard  Avenue  Baptist 
Mission  in  New  Haven,  remaining  from  September  to  the  following 
January,  when  on  account  of  hemorrhage  of  the  lungs  I  moved  to 
Colorado  Springs,  where  I  entirely  recovered.  In  July,  1888,  I 
began  preaching  at  the  little  town  of  Fountain,  Colo.  I  gave  up 
this  field  in  the  spring  of  1890  and  took  charge  of  the  erection  of 
a  church  at  Colorado  City,  where  I  had  organized  a  Baptist  church 
some  months  previous.  I  remained  here  as  pastor  until  my  health 
failed  in  the  spring  of  1891.  After  recuperating,  I  became  assistant 
pastor  at  Colorado  Springs,  was  married  in  June,  1893,  and  became 
pastor  at  La  Junta,  Colo.,  in  the  spring  of  1894.  I  remained  pastor 
of  this  church  until  the  year  1900.  Since  that  time  my  health  has 
not  permitted  me  to  engage  in  any  active  work/' 

Hart  is  independent  in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church. 

He  was  married  June  14,  1893,  in  Canon  City,  Colo.,  to  Carrie 
E.,  daughter  of  George  Oliver  Baldwin,  a  fruit  grower,  and  Maria 
C.  (Thompson)  Baldwin,  who  is  a  descendant  of  John  Rogers,  who 
was  burned  at  the  stake  at  Smithfield,  England,  in  1555.  They 
have  four  children: 

Helen  Wells,  born  May  3,  1894,  in  Canon  City,  Colo. 

Edward  Baldwin,  born  May  2,  1895,  at  La  Junta,  Colo. 

Howard  Webster,  born  September  18,  1900,  in  Canon  City,  Colo. 

Grace  Louise,  born  December  30,  1909,  in  Denver,  Colo. 


Horace  Sedgwick  Hart,  M.D. 

Physician,  Cambridge,  Washington  County,  N.  Y. 

Horace  S.  Hart  is  a  son  of  Franklin  Henry  and  Adaline  (Jack- 
son) Hart,  who  were  married  December  25,  1860.  Franklin  Henry 
Hart  was  born  April  29,  1834,  in  Durham,  Conn.,  and  died  August 
25,  1906,  in  Pine  Orchard,  Conn.  He  was  descended  from  Deacon 
Stephen  Hart,  born  about  1605  in  Braintree,  Essex  County,  Eng- 
land, who  came  to  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  about  1632,  later 
moving  to  Hartford  with  the  company  of  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker. 
He  attended  the  State  Normal  School  at  New  Britain  and  was  a 


GRADUATES 


HORACE    SEDGWICK    HART 


teacher  for  a  few  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  colony,  which 
in  1856  settled  at  Wabaunsee,  Kans.,  at  the  time  when  the  trouble 
in  Kansas  regarding  slavery  was  attracting  attention  all  over  the 
United  States.  Theirs  were  the  first  guns  fired  in  the  preliminary 
skirmish  of  the  Civil  War.  He  returned  to  New  Haven  in  1859 
and  associated  himself  in  business  with  Mr.  Horace  Strong.  In 
1872  he  became  associated  in  the  wholesale  provision  business  of 
Strong,  Barnes  &  Hart  Company.  He  was  a  member  of  Wooster 
Chapter,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  Sons  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution and  of  the  Union  League.  He  was  prominent  in  civic  affairs. 
Adaline  (Jackson)  Hart  was  born  December  18,  1834,  in  Guilford, 
Conn.  She  is  the  daughter  of  John  Jackson,  who  was  in  the  War 
of  1812,  and  the  granddaughter  of  John  Jackson,  who  was  killed  in 
the  Revolution  in  a  battle  on  Long  Island. 

Hart  was  born  August  31,  1865,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  which 
place  his  boyhood  was  spent.     He  was  prepared  by  private  tutoring. 


BIOGRAPHIES 


After  graduation  he  studied  biology  in  Sheff  and  then  entered 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1893.  He  was  an  interne  in  Bellevue  Hospital,  New  York,  in 
1894-95  and  since  1896  he  has  been  practicing  medicine  in  Cam- 
bridge, Washington  County,  N.  Y. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church  and  in  politics  a 
Republican. 

He  was  married  February  22,  1896,  in  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  to 
Mrs.  Amy  Hayden.  They  have  two  children: 

Gertrude  Richards,  born  February  4,  1897,  in  Cambridge,  N.  Y. 

Franklin  Jackson,  born  October  2,  1898,  in  Cambridge,  N.  Y. 


Clifford  Wayne  Hartridge 

149  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  37  West  Forty-fourth  Street,  New  York  City 

Clifford  W.  Hartridge  is  a  son  of  Alfred  Lamar  and  Julia  Smythe 
(Wayne)  Hartridge,  who  had  six  other  children:  Julian  Hart- 
ridge, Harvard  '90,  LL.B.  New  York  Law  School  '02;  Emelyn 
Battersby  Hartridge,  Vassar  '92,  Elizabeth  D.  Hartridge,  Katherine 
McD.  Hartridge  (Mrs.  Paschal  N.  Strong),  Ella  Beckwith  Hart- 
ridge, and  Julia  W.  Hartridge  (Mrs.  Lee  Hamilton  Parker). 
Alfred  L.  Hartridge,  the  son  of  Charles  Hartridge,  the  first  of 
the  family  in  this  country,  was  born  February  17,  1837,  in  Savan- 
nah, Ga.,  and  died  in  that  city  on  April  13,  1913.  He  was  of  Eng- 
lish ancestry.  Julia  Smythe  (Wayne)  Hartridge  was  born  in 
Savannah,  Ga.,  and  died  there,  February  1,  1884. 

Hartridge  was  born  in  Savannah,  Ga.,  June  1,  1866,  and  was 
prepared  at  Kirkwood,  Ga.,  and  the  Belleview  (Va.)  High  School. 
He  rowed  on  the  University  and  Class  crews  and  was  a  member 
of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

Since  his  graduation  from  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  1889  he 
has  practiced  law  in  New  York  City. 

He  is  an  Episcopalian  and  in  politics  is  a  Democrat  and  a  mem- 
ber of  Tammany  Hall.  He  has  been  politically  active  in  city, 


GRADUATES  249 


CLIFFORD  WAYXE  HARTRIDGE 


state  and  national  campaigns,  both  on  the  stump  and  otherwise, 
though  not  of  late  years.  He  has  been  referee  in  a  large  number 
of  cases  and  has  also  been  a  commissioner  to  open  streets  and  con- 
demn property  for  schools,  fire  engine  houses,  etc. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Yale,  Manhattan,  New  York  Yacht,  Demo- 
cratic, Chatsworth  and  Nameoki  clubs,  the  Southern  Society  and 
the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  He  has  traveled  quite 
extensively  throughout  the  United  States  and  Europe. 

He  was  married  December  17,  1895,  to  Jessie,  daughter  of  Hon. 
Leslie  W.  Russell,  justice  of  the  New  York  Supreme  Court,  and 
Harriette  Lawrence  Russell,  then  of  Canton,  N.  Y.  They  have 
three  children: 

Harriet  Russell,  born  December  20,  1897,  in  New  York  City. 

Emelyn  Battersby,  born  April  7,  1900,  in  New  York  City. 

Jessie  Russell,  born  -        — ,  1903,  in  New  York  City. 


250 


BIOGRAPHIES 


George  Griswold  Haven 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Strong,  Sturgis  &  Company,  30  Broad  Street, 
New  York  City 

Residence,  6  East  Fifty-third  Street,  New  York  City 

George  G.  Haven  is  a  son  of  George  Griswold  and  Emma 
(Martin)  Haven.  George  Griswold  Haven,  Sr.,  was  born  in  1837, 
and  died  in  1909  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Colum- 
bia University  in  1857  and  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  there  in 

1860.  He  was  a  banker  and  was 
president  and  director  of  the 
Metropolitan  Opera  &  Real  Es- 
tate Company,  and  the  Worces- 
ter, Nashua  &  Rochester  Rail- 
road Company,  and  director  of 
the  National  Bank  of  Commerce, 
the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa 
Fe  Railway  Company,  Cali- 
fornia Eastern  Railway  Com- 
pany, the  Guaranty  Trust  Com- 
pany, New  York  &  Harlem 
River  Railroad  Company,  the 
Gulf,  Colorado  &  Santa  Fe 
Railroad  Company,  the  Morton 
Trust  Company  and  many  other 
corporations,  and  was  vice-presi- 
dent and  director  of  the  Pitts- 
burgh, Fort  Wayne  &  Chicago 
Railway  Company.  He  was 
married  a  second  time  to  Fanny 
Arnot. 

Haven  was  born  June  14,  1866,  in  New  York  City.  He  was 
prepared  at  St.  John's  School,  Ossining  [Sing  Sing],  N.  Y.,  and 
in  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  He  Boule, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

He  is,  and  for  a  number  of  years  has  been,  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Strong,  Sturgis  &  Company,  bankers  and  brokers,  at  36 
Broad  Street,  New  York  City.  He  is  a  director  and  the  treasurer 


GEORGE  GRISWOLD  HAVEX 


GRADUATES  251 


of  the  Metropolitan  Opera  &  Real  Estate  Company,  a  trustee  and 
manager  of  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Children 
in  New  York  City,  and  a  trustee  and  secretary  of  the  New  York 
Foundling  Asylum. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  and  is  a  member  of  the  Metro- 
politan, University,  Knickerbocker,  Racquet  and  Tennis,  Coaching, 
Casino,  Down  Town,  Union,  Riding,  New  York  Yacht,  and  Garden 
City  and  Oakland  Golf  clubs.  In  the  summer  he  resides  at  Ridge- 
field,  Conn. 

He  was  married  September  4,  1889,  to  Elizabeth  Shaw,  daugh- 
ter of  ex-Governor  Charles  R.  Ingersoll,  of  New  Haven.  They 
have  three  children: 

Leila,  born  October  10,  1890;  married  June  22,  1912,  Gilbert 
Edward  Jones,  Jr. 

George  Griswold,  Jr.,  Yale  '16,  born  March  21,  1893. 

Alice,  born  July  13,  1895. 


Forbes  Hawkes,  M.D. 

Surgeon,  124   East   Sixty-fifth  Street,  New  York  City 

[Robert]  Forbes  Hawkes  is  a  son  of  Wootton  Wright  and  Eliza 
(Forbes)  Hawkes,  who  had  one  other  child,  a  son,  [Emil]  McDou- 
gall  Hawkes,  M.E.  Columbia  '85,  LL.B.  '87.  W.  Wright  Hawkes 
was  born  in  1810  in  Liverpool,  England,  and  died  December  12, 
1887,  in  New  Haven,  Conn..  He  was  a  lawyer  and  professor  of 
English  and  Sanskrit  at  Trinity  College,  Hartford,  Conn.,  from 
1860  to  1864,  and  dean  from  1864  to  1874.  He  received  the  honor- 
ary degree  of  M.A.  in  1861  and  that  of  LL.D.  in  1876  after  his 
retirement.  He  was  a  great-grandson  of  Gen.  Alexander  McDou- 
gall,  who  was  in  command  of  West  Point  during  the  Revolutionary 
War.  Eliza  (Forbes)  Hawkes  was  born  July  31,  1833,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  and  died  April  23,  1913.  in  New  York  City.  She  was 
a  graduate  of  Troy  Female  Seminary. 

Hawkes  was  born  August  25,  1865,  in  New  York  City.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  partly  in  New  York  City,  partly  abroad  and 
partly  in  New  Haven,  where  he  was  prepared  at  the  Hillhouse 
High  School.  In  college  he  received  a  Berkeley  premium  for 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Latin  composition,  and  a  second  colloquy  Junior  appointment  and 
was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head. 

Since  January,  1895,  he  has 
been  practicing  surgery  in  New 
York  City,  having  graduated 
from  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  in  1891,  studied 
in  Europe  in  1892,  and  received 
practical  experience  on  the  house 
staff  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospi- 
tal for  two  years.  He  has  been 
associate  attending  surgeon  at 
the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  at- 
tending surgeon  at  the  Trinity 
Hospital,  adjunct  professor  of 
clinical  surgery  at  the  New  York 
Post  Graduate  Hospital,  con- 
sulting surgeon  at  the  Nassau 
Hospital,  Mineola,  L.  I.,  asso- 
ciate in  surgery,  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, and  a  member  and  officer 
of  a  number  of  medical  and  sur- 
gical societies. 

He  is  the  author  of  a  con- 
siderable number  of  articles  on  surgical  subjects  which  have  been 
printed  in  various  medical  journals  and  in  the  reports  of  the 
Presbyterian  Hospital. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  and  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
church.  He  is  a  lieutenant  of  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps,  by 
appointment  of  President  Taft.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  and 
University  clubs  of  New  York  City,  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
St.  Nicholas  Society,  Lenox  Medical  and  Surgical  Society,  North- 
western Medical  and  Surgical  Society,  Hospital  Graduates  Club, 
New  York  Academy  of  Medicine,  American  Medical  Association, 
County  Medical  Association,  Surgical  Society,  American  Urological 
Society,  Medical  Association  of  the  City  of  Greater  New  York, 
Associated  Physicians  of  Long  Island  and  a  Fellow  of  the  American 
College  of  Surgeons. 


FORBES   HAWKES 


GRADUATES  253 


He  was  married  April  25,  1905,  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  to  Alice 
Silliman,  daughter  of  W.  R.  Belknap  (Yale  '69  S.).  She  is  a 
granddaughter  of  the  younger  Professor  Benjamin  Silliman  (Yale 
'37)  and  a  sister  of  W.  B.  Belknap  (Yale  '08).  They  have  one 
daughter  and  one  son: 

Eleanor  Silliman,  born  April  10,  1909,  in  New  York  City. 

John  Lawrence,  born  February  8,  1914,  in  New  York  City. 


Frederick  Trevor  Hill 

Lawyer  and  Writer,  56  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 

Residences,  257  West  Eighty-sixth  Street,  New  York  City,  and 
Irvington-on-Hudson,  N.  Y. 

Frederick  T.  Hill  is  a  son  of  Edward  and  Mary  (Johnson)  Hill, 
who  had  five  other  children:  Duncan,  died  in  1876,  Hugh,  Frank, 
Charlotte  and  Edith  Hill.  Edward  Hill,  who  was  born  in  Lincoln, 
England,  and  came  to  this  country  about  1850,  made  his  home  in 
Brooklyn  and  New  York  City,  dying  in  the  latter  city  in  1886.  He 
founded  the  firm  of  Edward  Hill's  Son  &  Company,  merchants. 
His  wife,  who  was  also  born  in  England,  died  in  Brooklyn  in  1877. 

Hill  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  May  5,  1866,  removing  to 
New  York  City  in  1878.  He  was  prepared  at  the  Brooklyn  Poly- 
technic Institute.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  University 
Club,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head.  He  writes: 

"I  have  been  actively  engaged  in  law  practice  since  1889  and 
quite  actively  as  a  writer  since  1900.  I  worked  on  the  New  York 
Evening  Post  during  a  part  of  1888  and  1889.  Since  1901  I  have 
written  and  published  about  a  dozen  books,  including  several  novels, 
a  law  book  and  a  number  of  volumes  touching  on  American  history. 
[See  Bibliography  for  further  description.] 

"I  have  taken  a  hand  in  trying  to  better  the  existing  social,  legal 
and  judicial  conditions,  but  my  chief  interest  lies  in  work  with 
boys  and  in  the  reformation  of  our  vicious  legal  practices.  I  have 
had  more  success  with  the  former  than  with  the  latter  and  much 
more  fun. 

"Being  both  a  lawyer  and  a  writer,  I  am  kept  fairly  busy  and 
am  thinking  of  retiring  from  the  law  to  devote  myself  to  writing 


BIOGRAPHIES 


A 


FREDERICK   TREVOR   HILL 

and  work  of  a  quasi-public  character.  I  am  active  in  'middle-age 
athletics'  such  as  golf  and  tennis,  and  can  still  hold  my  own  in 
such  sports  with  the  younger  generation." 

Hill  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  Columbia  in  1889  and  Yale 
conferred  upon  him  an  honorary  M.A.  in  1907.  He  is  one  of  the 
Board  of  Managers  of  the  New  York  Association  for  Improving 
the  Condition  of  the  Poor,  a  member  of  the  Criminal  Courts  Com- 
mittee of  the  Charity  Organization  Society;  is  on  several  com- 
mittees of  the  New  York  Bar  Association;  acts  on  the  staff  of  the 
Big  Brother  Movement;  is  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the  New 
York  Boy  Scouts,  and  has  been  for  several  years  leader  of  the 
Alf  (Boys')  Club. 

He  is  independent  in  politics,  but  inclines  to  the  Progressive 
party.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church  and  vestryman 
of  St.  Barnabas'  Church,  Irvington,  N.  Y.  His  clubs  are  the 
Ardsley,  Ausable,  Graduates  and  Elizabethan  (New  Haven), 
Century,  Down  Town,  Authors',  New  York  Bar  Association  and 
New  York  County  Lawyers'  Association. 


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He  was  married  October  22,  1895,  to  Mabel  Wood,  Smith  College 
'91,  daughter  of  Cornelius  Delano  Wood  and  Helen  (Ogden)  Wood. 
Mrs.  Hill  is  vice-president  and  director  of  the  New  York  Music 
School  Settlement,  president  of  the  Dobbs  Ferry  Music  School  and 
vice-president  of  the  Speedwell  Homes  for  Convalescent  Children. 
She  has  devoted  much  time  to  composing  vocal  and  instrumental 
music.  Among  her  published  compositions  are  "Spring  Songs," 
"Seven  Songs  of  Stevenson,"  "Three  Songs,"  "Three  Celtic  Songs," 
anthem,  "Fear  Thou  Not,"  "Vagabondia  Songs,"  "The  Lark,"  etc. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hill  have  one  son: 

Edward  Trevor,  born  January  1,  1901;  a  student  at  Hackley 
School,  Tarrytown,  N.  Y. 


George  Edwin  Hill 

Lawyer,  Hill  &  Boardman,  Security  Building,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Residence}  926  Fairfield  Avenue,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

George  E.  Hill  is  a  son  of  Charles  Edwin  and  Susan  Frances 
(Wilbur)  Hill,  who  were  married  May  7,  1856,  and  had  three  other 
children:  William  Hill,  C.E.  Columbia  School  of  Mines  '82; 
Herbert  Wilbur  Hill  and  Susan  Frances  (Hill)  Gould. 

Charles  E.  Hill,  born  February  27,  1827,  in  Great  Falls  (now 
Somersworth),  N.  H.,  and  died  February  4,  1894,  in  De  Land, 
Fla.,  was  of  early  Massachusetts  and  Maine  Quaker  descent  with 
some  Puritan  strains.  The  Hill  family  was  in  Kittery,  Maine, 
early  in  the  eighteenth  century  and  another  line  was  in  Massa- 
chusetts much  earlier.  He  spent  his  boyhood  in  North  Berwick, 
Maine,  moving  to  Philadelphia  in  1850,  where  he  remained  ten 
years,  and  then  made  his  headquarters  in  New  York  City.  He 
imported  teas  under  the  firm  name  of  Charles  E.  Hill  &  Company. 
His  wife,  Susan  Frances  Wilbur,  was  born  January  17,  1834,  in 
Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  and  died  in  Stamford,  Conn.,  April  21,  1880,  a 
descendant  of  English  Quakers,  who  came  to  Rhode  Island  in  the 
seventeenth  century. 

Hill  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  July  2,  1864,  and  was  pre- 
pared at  H.  U.  King's  School  in  Stamford,  Conn.  He  received 


256  BIOGRAPHIES 


second  dispute  appointments,  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club 
and  was  the  Class  Statistician,  editing  the  Class  Book. 

After  two  years  spent  in  teaching  at  the  school  where  he  pre- 
pared in  Stamford,  he  entered  the  Yale  Law  School  and  was 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1891,  taking  at  graduation 
the  Townsend  prize  for  the  best  oration  at  Commencement.  He 
was  a  member  of  Phi  Delta  Phi,  the  Law  School  fraternity,  the 
Yale  Chapter  of  which  is  now  known  as  Corbey  Court. 

In  the  fall  of  1891  he  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Bridgeport, 
where  he  has  since  continued,  being  a  member  at  different  times 
of  the  firms  of  Perry,  Perry  &  Hill  (John  H.  Perry,  Yale  '70,  and 
Winthrop  H.  Perry,  Yale  '76),  Hall  &  Hill  and  since  1907,  Hill  & 
Boardman  (William  B.  Boardman,  Yale  '93). 

In  an  action  brought  by  the  Department  of  Justice  under  the 
Sherman  Law  against  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford 
Railroad  Company  to  compel  it  to  surrender  its  control  of  the 
trolley  system  of  Connecticut,  five  trustees  were  appointed  in  the 
fall  of  1914  to  take  over  the  trolley  system  and  manage  it.  Hill 
was  named  as  one  of  these  trustees  and  as  such  is  a  director  of  the 
Connecticut  Company,  which  controls  substantially  all  the  street 
railroads  in  Connecticut. 

He  was  president  of  the  Bridgeport  Bar  Association  and  for  two 
terms,  1910-11  and  1911-12,  president  of  the  State  Bar  Associa- 
tion of  Connecticut. 

He  was  active  in  the  organization  of  the  University  Club  of 
Bridgeport  and  was  its  second  president,  and  has  been  president 
of  the  Sea  Side  Club,  Mill  Hill  Golf,  and  Contemporary  clubs, 
and  served  a  number  of  years  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Fairfield  County,  was  its  president 
in  1912-13  and  now  represents  it  on  the  Council  of  the  New 
England  Federation  of  Yale  Clubs.  He  is  president  of  the  Yale 
Association  of  Class  Secretaries  and  as  such  a  member  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Advisory  Board.  He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  Mechanics  &  Farmers  Savings  Bank  of  Bridgeport. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  and  for  a  number  of  years  was 
active  in  Republican  politics ;  was  chairman  of  the  Republican 
town  and  city  committee  of  Bridgeport  in  the  presidential  campaign 
of  1904  and  in  1903  he  was  Republican  candidate  for  mayor  in  a 


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257 


GEORGE   EDWIK   HILL 


year  of  Democratic  victory,  which  constituted  his  sole  appearance 
as  a  candidate  for  public  office.  He  served  four  years  (1906-09) 
as  president  of  the  Board  of  Police  Commissioners  of  Bridgeport. 

Besides  the  organizations  above  mentioned,  he  is  a  member  of 
the  Brooklawn  Country  Club  of  Bridgeport,  the  Yale  Club  of  New 
York  and  the  American  Bar  Association. 

Since  June,  1894,  he  has  held  the  office  of  county  health  officer 
for  Fairfield  County  by  successive  appointments  of  the  judges  of 
the  Superior  Court.  This  position  is  in  effect  that  of  legal  adviser 
arid  prosecutor  in  matters  pertaining  to  public  health  and  sanitation 
throughout  the  county. 

While  brought  up  a  Quaker,  his  affiliations  are  with  the 
Congregational  church. 

His  travel  in  the  United  States  has  included  the  Pacific  coast 
twice  and  nearly  all  the  Southern  states,  as  well  as  New  England 
and  the  Middle  West.  In  1909  he  spent  a  summer  in  Europe, 
recuperating  from  the  effects  of  preparing  for  the  press  the 


258  BIOGRAPHIES 


Vicennial  Record  of  the  Class  of  '87  and  feels  convinced  that 
another  trip  abroad  as  soon  as  possible  after  this  volume  is 
completed  will  be  necessary. 

He  has  been  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  '87  since  1893. 

He  was  married  April  20,  1910,  to  Catherine  Marea  Utley, 
daughter  of  the  late  James  Seward  and  Catherine  M.  (Empie) 
Utley  of  New  York.  Mrs.  Hill  is  a  graduate  of  Bryn  Mawr,  Class 
of  1905. 


*Charles  Mills  Hinkle 

Died  June  7,  1913 

Charles  M.  Hinkle  was  the  son  of  Anthony  Hughes  and  Frances 
(Schillinger)  Hinkle,  who  were  married  April  5,  1842,  and  had 
eight  other  children,  of  whom  only  one,  William  Henry  Hinkle, 
Yale  '69,  is  now  living.  Anthony  H.  Hinkle  was  born  March  19, 
1815,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  died  June  25,  1883,  at  Andover, 
Mass.,  at  the  time  of  our  classmate's  graduation  there.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  Sargent,  Wilson  &  Hinkle,  schoolbook 
printers  and  publishers  of  Cincinnati,  later  the  firm  of  Wilson, 
Hinkle  &  Company,  which  has  now  been  merged  in  the  American 
Book  Company.  He  was  descended  from  Rev.  Anthony  Jacob 
Henkel,  who  emigrated  from  Frankfort,  Germany,  in  1717  and 
settled  in  New  Hanover,  Pa.,  then  known  as  Hanover  Township, 
County  of  Philadelphia,  Province  of  Pennsylvania.  Frances 
Schillinger  was  born  August  22,  1818,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  died 
in  the  same  city  on  May  8,  1911.  Her  father  was  William 
Schillinger  of  Cape  May,  N.  J.,  of  Holland  descent. 

Hinkle  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  June  12,  1862,  and  pre- 
pared at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  In  college  he  was  a  Class 
Historian,  a  member  of  the  Glee  Club  for  four  years,  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

After  graduation  he  was  employed  by  the  firm  of  Van  Antwerp, 
Bragg  &  Company,  the  successor  of  his  father's  business  in 
Cincinnati,  but  after  a  few  years  he  retired  from  active  business. 
With  the  exception  of  trips  to  Europe  and  the  Orient,  his  life  was 
passed  with  his  family  at  their  homes  at  Osterville,  Mass.,  during 
the  summer  and  fall,  and  at  Aiken,  S.  C.,  during  the  winter.  The 


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259 


CHARLES    MILLS    HINKLE 


spring  was  usually  spent  at  Plot  Springs,  Va.,  where  he  went  for 
the  baths.  Golf  was  his  chief  form  of  exercise  and  diversion.  In 
May,  1913,  he  went  as  usual  to  the  Hot  Springs,  where  he  was  in 
quite  good  health,  but  was  taken  suddenly  ill  on  June  6  and  died 
the  following  day  of  intestinal  toxaemia.  The  interment  was  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

He  was  a  Republican  in  politics.  His  clubs  included  the  Aiken 
Club,  Aiken,  S.  C.,  Palmetto  Golf  Club,  Aiken,  and  the  Golf  Club 
of  Osterville,  Mass.  He  was  a  non-resident  member  of  the  Univer- 
sity clubs  of  New  York  and  Boston,  and  the  Metropolitan  Club  of 
Washington,  D.  C. 

He  was  married  April  29,  1891,  in  Covington,  Ky.,  to  Mary  F., 
daughter  of  James  W.  Gaff,  a  manufacturer,  and  Rachel  Susanna 
(Conwell)  Gaff.  They  had  three  children: 

Jean  Gaff,  born  May  3,  1894,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

Charles  Anthony,  born  February  14,  1896,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

James  Gaff,  born  July  9,  1898,  in  Osterville,  Mass. 


BIOGRAPHIES 


CLARKE   WESLEY   HOLLY 


Clarke  Wesley  Holly 

Clarke  W.  Holly  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  May  4, 
1864,  the  son  of  James  Holly, 
and  brother  of  William  James 
Holly,  Yale  '83.  He  prepared 
at  the  North  Broad  Street  Select 
School  and  in  college  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Class  Day  Committee 
and  Psi  Upsilon. 

After  graduation  he  returned 
to  Philadelphia  and  in  1888-89 
was  a  member  of  the  second  year 
class  of  the  Department  of 
Medicine  in  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania.  All  efforts  to 
secure  further  information  have 
been  without  result. 


Frank  Clifford  Howe 

President,  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the  Vacuum  Massager  Manufacturing 
Company,  1923  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Residence,  606  West  191st  Street,  New  York  City 

Frank  C.  Howe  is  a  son  of  Elijah  Franklin  and  Frances  Field 
(Gates)  Howe,  who  were  married  September  23,  1861,  and  had 
three  other  children:  Lewis  B.,  Grace  Gates  and  Frances  Cruft, 
Smith  '00,  who  married  Herbert  Leonard  Sutton,  Yale  '97. 
Elijah  Franklin  Howe,  the  son  of  Lemuel  and  Sally  (Jones) 
Howe,  was  born  at  Graf  ton,  Mass.,  September  19,  1832,  and  died 
in  Peoria,  111.,  August  11,  1887.  He  was  descended  from  the 
keeper  of  the  "Wayside  Inn,"  made  famous  by  Longfellow,  and 
from  John  Howe  of  Warwickshire,  England.  He  was  a  graduate 
of  Yale  in  the  Class  of  1859,  and  was  a  minister  in  the  Congre- 
gational church.  He  was  married  a  second  time  to  Mrs.  Sarah 
Storrs  Proctor,  daughter  of  Charles  Storrs,  at  Peoria,  111.,  October 


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261 


26,  1885.  Our  classmate's 
mother,  Frances  Field  Gates, 
daughter  of  Erastus  Gates,  was 
born  in  Monson,  Mass.,  and  died 
in  Newtonville,  Mass.,  November 
11,  1882.  She  attended  Mount 
Holyoke  Seminary  in  the  year 
1859. 

Howe  was  born  at  Canaan, 
Conn.,  July  13,  1864.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  Newton, 
Mass.,  and  he  was  prepared  at 
the  high  school  of  that  place. 
In  college  he  received  a  second 
dispute  appointment  in  both 
Junior  and  Senior  years  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Pundit  and  Yale 
Bicycle  clubs. 

The  first  three  years  after 
graduation  he  was  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.,  studying  law  and  en- 
gaged in  newspaper  work.  From  1890  to  1905  he  was  in  Peoria, 
111.,  practicing  law.  During  this  time  he  was  United  States  com- 
missioner and  master-in-chancery  and  clerk  of  the  United  States 
Circuit  and  District  Courts  for  the  Southern  Division  of  the  North- 
ern District  of  Illinois.  He  was  the  Republican  candidate  for  city 
attorney  in  1892,  but  was  defeated  with  the  rest  of  the  ticket.  He 
was  active  in  Republican  politics  and  for  nine  years  was  a  member 
of  the  Republican  city  central  committee,  of  which  he  was  chairman 
for  one  year. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church.  He  was  for  some 
years  attorney  for  the  Woman's  Protective  Agency  in  Peoria,  also 
for  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals.  He  was 
ensign  on  the  staff  of  the  commander  of  the  Naval  Militia  of 
Illinois  only  for  the  purpose  of  getting  into  the  Spanish  War  in 
the  detachment  ordered  out  on  the  Oregon,  but  was  rejected  by 
the  United  States  board  on  account  of  a  "bad  eye."  Since  1905 


FRANK   CLIFFORD   HOWE 


BIOGRAPHIES 


HOWARD    HUME 


he  has  been  in  New  York  City.     He  has  been  abroad  three  times 
and  once  to  California  and  the  Northwest. 
He  has  never  married. 


*John  Howard  Hume 

Died  March  26,  1912 

John  H.  Hume  was  a  son  of  John  Ferguson  and  Caroline 
(Carter)  Hume,  who  were  married  December  29,  1859,  and  had 
three  other  children:  Arthur  Carter,  Yale  '92,  Martha  Elizabeth 
(Mrs.  Alfred  M.  Frost),  and  Francis  Alison  Hume  (died  in  May, 
1880,  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.).  John  Ferguson  Hume  was  born 
September  7,  1830,  in  Delaware  Count}',  N.  Y.,  and  died  July  10, 
1909,  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  He  was  of  Scotch  descent,  his 
grandfather  coming  to  this  country  from  Scotland  in  1795.  He 
was  a  graduate  of  Ohio-Wesleyan  University  and  was  an  editor 


GRADUATES  263 


and  author.  Caroline  (Carter)  Hume  was  born  June  28,  1835, 
and  died  January  8,  1902,  in  Poughkeepsie. 

Hume  was  born  December  19,  1864,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  was 
prepared  at  Phillips  Exeter.  In  college  he  received  second  dispute 
appointments  in  Junior  and  Senior  years  and  was  a  member  of 
Psi  Upsilon. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  the  Columbia  Law  School  and 
later  in  the  office  of  Frank  B.  Lown  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1889.  The  same  year  he  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  was  for  a 
time  with  the  firm  of  Hanecy  &  Merrick,  then  practiced  his  pro- 
fession alone  and  later  entered  the  firm  of  Stein  &  Platt.  In 
November,  1906,  he  was  elected  judge  of  the  municipal  court  of 
Chicago,  for  a  term  of  four  years.  He  was  renominated  in  1910 
on  the  Republican  ticket  but  with  many  of  his  party  colleagues 
failed  of  reelection.  He  died  March  26,  1912,  in  Poughkeepsie, 
N.  Y.,  from  a  brain  tumor. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Marquette,  Press  and  Irving  Golf 
clubs  of  Chicago,  and  of  Forrest  Park  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons. 

He  was  not  married. 


*Albert  Gay  Hunt 

Died  May  21,  1905 

Albert  G.  Hunt  was  a  son  of  Alexander  Everett  and  Frances 
Elizabeth  (Gay)  Hunt,  who  were  married  June  25,  1862,  at  Seneca 
Falls,  N.  Y.,  and  had  four  children,  three  boys  and  one  girl,  three 
of  whom  lived  to  maturity.  Alexander  Everett  Hunt,  Jr.,  was 
graduated  at  Yale  in  1896.  The  father,  born  in  Paulina,  N.  J.,  in 
1835,  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life  as  a  merchant  in  Scranton. 
His  parents  were  Wilson  Hunt  and  Margaret  Everett,  both  of 
Paulina,  N.  J.  His  wife,  Frances  Elizabeth  Gay,  born  August  29, 
1837,  at  Seneca  Falls,  is  the  daughter  of  John  Sedgwick  Gay,  a 
merchant  of  Seneca  Falls,  and  Laura  Bostwick  Hoskins  of  Auburn, 
N.  Y. 

Hunt  was  born  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  September  7,   1863,  and  was 


BIOGRAPHIES 


prepared  at  the  School  of  the  Lackawanna  in  Scranton,  and  at 
Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  his  course  at  the  latter  school 
being  interrupted  on  account  of  ill  health,  from  which  he  suffered 
during  the  first  two  years  in  college.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Senior  Prom  Committee  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

After  graduation  he  became  connected  with  the  Hunt  &  Connell 
Company,  the  largest  wholesale  and  retail  hardware  company  in 
northeastern  Pennsylvania,  and  continued  in  their  employ  for 
thirteen  years  as  secretary  and  head  of  the  purchasing  department. 
In  1900  he  was  made  manager  of  the  Technical  Supply  Company, 

a  subsidiary  corporation  con- 
nected with  the  well-known 
International  Correspondence 
schools  of  Scranton,  and  re- 
mained in  this  position  until  his 
death. 

He  died,  after  an  illness  of 
two  weeks  from  tuberculosis  of 
the  kidneys,  May  21,  1905,  in 
Scranton,  Pa. 

He  was  prominent  in  social 
life:  one  of  the  founders  and  sec- 
retary and  treasurer  until  his 
death  of  the  Country  Club  of 
Scranton;  one  of  the  organizers 
of  The  Bachelors;  a  charter 
member  and  officer  of  Phi  Alpha 
Society.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  vice-president  of 
ALBERT  GAY  HUNT  ^he  Ya^e  Alumni  Association  of 

Scranton,  and  a  member  of  the 
Scranton  Club,  and  of  the  Uni- 
versity and  Yale  clubs  of  New  York.     He  was  an  active  worker  in 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church. 
He  was  not  married. 

[For  further  biographical  notice  see  Vicennial  Record,  pages 
123-125.] 


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265 


*DeWitt  Clinton  Huntington 

Died  February  11,  1889 

DeWitt    C.    Huntington,    son    of    Rev.    Eleazer    P.    and    Maria 
(Miller)    Huntington,  was  born  in  Bingham,  Potter  County,   Pa., 
August  4,  1858.     He  prepared  at 
the    Omaha    (Nebr.)    and    New 
Britain     (Conn.)     high    schools, 
and  resided  at  Newington,  Conn., 
at  the  time  of  entering  college. 
At  Yale  he  received  first  dispute 
appointments  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Class  Supper  Committee. 

On  graduation  he  entered  on 
the  work  of  his  chosen  profes- 
sion, the  ministry,  in  connection 
with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church;  for  the  first  year  he 
acted  as  an  assistant  to  his 
father's  brother,  whose  namesake 
he  was,  who  was  then  in  charge 
of  a  church  in  Olean,  N.  Y.  He 
had  begun  a  year  of  service  as 
pastor  in  Eldred,  McLean 
County,  Pa.,  and  was  feeling  the 
results  of  long  continued  over- 
work, when  he  was  prostrated  by 

an  attack  of  typhoid  fever,  from  which  he  died  in  Eldred,  February 
11,  1889. 

He  was  not  married. 


CLINTON  HUNTINGTON 


Louis  Kepler  Hyde 

President  of  the  City  National  Bank,  149  North  Avenue,  Plainfield,  N.  J. 
Residence,  "Oakmont,"  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

Louis  K.  Hyde  is  a  son  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  (Kepler)  Hyde, 
who  were  married  October  8,  1862,  and  had  three  other  children: 


266  BIOGRAPHIES 


Charles  Livingston  Hyde,  Yale  '86;  Francis  deLacey  Hyde,  Yale 
'91  (died  September  7,  1910);  and  Edith  (Hyde)  Colby.  Charles 
Hyde,  son  of  Elijah  and  Diadema  (Comstock)  Hyde,  was  born 
in  Elba,  Allegheny  County,  N.  Y.,  February  27,  1822,  and  was  in 
the  eighth  generation  from  William  Hyde,  who  came  to  America 
from  England  with  Thomas  Hooker  in  1633  and  settled  at  Hart- 
ford, Conn.  His  great-grandfather,  Major  Elijah  Hyde,  was  a 
cavalry  officer  in  the  Continental  Army,  and  one  of  the  confidants 
of  the  first  governor  of  Connecticut,  Jonathan  Trumbull.  Charles 
Hyde  first  married  Abbey  Pesley  on  October  18,  1849,  who  died 
on  August  21,  1859,  leaving  one  son,  Dorsey  W.  Hyde.  Charles 
Hyde  was  president  of  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Titusville, 
Pa.,  the  Hyde  National  Bank  of  Titusville,  the  New  Orleans  & 
Northwestern  Railway  Company,  and  the  City  National  Bank  of 
Plainfield,  N.  J.  He  died  in  Plainfield,  June  12,  1901.  Elizabeth 
Kepler  Hyde,  his  second  wife,  was  born  in  Emlenton,  Pa.,  August 
11,  1838.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Kohlmeyer) 
Kepler.  Her  maternal  grandfather,  John  George  Kohlmeyer,  was 
a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Wurtemburg,  Germany,  and  later 
came  to  America.  She  is  still  living. 

Hyde  was  born  July  30,  1865,  in  Hydetown,  Crawford  County, 
Pa.  He  attended  Dr.  Pingry's  School  in  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  from 
1879  to  1882  and  the  Leal  School  in  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  during  the 
year  1882-83.  In  college  he  was  on  the  Class  Supper  Committee, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  University  and  Bicycle  clubs,  He  Boule 
and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

In  the  fall  of  1887,  he  assumed  the  duties  of  vice-president  of 
the  Second  National  Bank  of  Titusville,  Pa.,  at  which  time  he  also 
became  assistant  cashier  of  the  Hyde  National  Bank  of  Titusville. 
In  August,  1888,  he  became  the  junior  member  of  the  banking  firm 
of  Charles  Hyde  &  Son  of  Titusville,  which  firm  succeeded  the 
Hyde  National  Bank.  In  March,  1889,  he  was  also  elected  cashier 
of  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Titusville,  in  which  capacity  he 
continued  to  serve  until  August  1,  1901,  when  he  was  elected 
president  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  his  father. 
In  1890  he  became  vice-president  of  the  New  Orleans  &  North- 
western Railway  Company,  the  following  year  its  president,  and 
in  1892  was  appointed  receiver  and  general  manager  of  this  rail- 


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267 


Louis   KEPLER   HYDE 


road.  He  continued  to  ably  fill  this  responsible  position  until 
March,  1893,  when  he  was  elected  vice-president  and  general 
manager  with  headquarters  at  Titus ville.  He  remained  in  that 
position  until  January,  1901,  at  which  time  he  sold  this  railroad 
property  to  Mr.  George  Gould  and  his  associates  of  New  York. 
From  1900  to  1905  he  was  president  of  the  Natchez  &  Louisiana 
Railway  Transfer  Company,  at  the  end  of  which  time  this  property 
was  sold  to  the  Gould  interests.  In  1900  he  was  appointed  chair- 
man of  the  National  Investment  Company,  Ltd.,  of  Titusville,  and 
in  1910  was  elected  president  of  the  Union  County  Investment 
Company  of  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  both  of  which  offices  he  still  holds. 
In  July,  1905,  he  sold  the  greater  part  of  his  stock  in  the  Second 
National  Bank  of  Titusville,  retiring  as  its  president,  but  still 
remaining  on  the  board  of  directors.  In  September,  1905,  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  City  National  Bank  of  Plainfield,  which 
office  he  continues  to  hold.  In  July,  1906,  he  removed  from  Titus- 
ville to  Plainfield,  where  he  now  resides.  In  February,  1909,  he 


268  BIOGRAPHIES 


was  elected  vice-president  of  the  Pure  Oil  Company  of  Philadelphia 
and  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  that  company,  which 
office  he  held  until  February,  1912.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the 
Plainfield  Savings  Bank  of  Plainfield,  of  the  Westfield  Trust 
Company  of  Westfield,  N.  J.,  and  is  extensively  in  traction  com- 
pany investments,  serving  as  director  of  the  Muskogee  and  the 
Shawnee  Electric  Traction  companies  in  Oklahoma. 

In  politics  Hyde  is  a  staunch  Republican,  in  religion  a  Presby- 
terian, and  the  evidence  of  his  activity  is  shown  in  the  fact  that 
he  is  closely  connected  with  a  great  number  of  charitable,  religious, 
social  and  business  interests  in  the  community  in  which  he  lives. 
He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Crescent  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Plainfield.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Plainfield  Park  Club,  the  Plain- 
field  Country  Club,  the  Park  Golf  Club,  the  Baltusrol  Golf  Club, 
the  Camp  Fire  Club  of  America,  the  Pennsylvania  Society  and  the 
Titusville  Country  Club.  He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  managers 
and  president  of  the  finance  committee  of  the  Muhlenberg  Hospital 
of  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

On  June  30,  1891,  he  was  married  to  Verna  May  Emery,  daughter 
of  Hon.  David  Emery,  a  capitalist,  and  Susan  (Edwards)  Emery 
of  Titusville.  They  have  had  four  children,  one  of  whom  died  in 
childhood : 

Helen,  born  November  18,  1892,  in  Titusville. 

Elizabeth,  born  January  23,  1899,  and  died  July  2,  1900,  in 
Titusville. 

Louis  Kepler,  Jr.,  born  October  5,  1901,  in  Titusville. 

William  Emery,  born  December  15,  1908,  in  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

A  nephew,  Charles  Hyde,  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1916,  Yale 
College. 


Obed  Wilson  Irvin 

President  of  the  First  Savings  &  Banking  Company,  Dayton,  Ohio 
Residence,  39  East  Third  Street,  Dayton,  Ohio 

Obed  W.  Irvin  is  a  son  of  James  Baxter  and  Ellen  S.  (Montfort) 
Irvin,  who  were  married  in  1852  and  had  three  other  children: 
Julia  (Irvin)  Winchet,  Horace  A.  Irvin,  and  James  M.  Irvin, 


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OBED   WILSOK    IRVIN 


Yale  '90.  James  Baxter  Irvin  was  born  April  8,  1827,  in  Kingston, 
Ohio,  and  died  February  11,  1885,  in  Dayton,  Ohio.  His  father 
came  from  northern  Ireland  about  1800  and  his  mother  was  from 
Pennsylvania.  Most  of  his  life  was  spent  in  Dayton,  where  he 
was  a  teacher.  He  married  for  a  second  wife  Mary  Ritson.  Our 
classmate's  mother,  Ellen  S.  Montfort,  was  born  November  9, 
1830,  near  Lebanon,  Ohio,  and  died  in  Dayton,  April  17,  1875. 
Her  father  was  of  French  Huguenot  ancestry  and  her  mother  was 
from  New  Jersey. 

Irvin  was  born  at  Dayton,  January  12,  1866,  and  was  prepared 
at  the  Dayton  High  School.  In  college  he  received  a  second  dispute 
Junior  appointment,  a  first  colloquy  Senior  appointment  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club. 

After  teaching  four  years  in  the  Dayton  High  School,  he  entered 
the  Cincinnati  Law  School,  from  which  he  received  a  B.L.  degree 
in  1892.  Since  then  he  has  been  practicing  law  in  Dayton.  He 
is  president  of  the  First  Savings  &  Banking  Company  of  Dayton, 


270  BIOGRAPHIES 


and  of  the  Western  Ohio  Creamery  Company,  and  a  director  of 
Irvin,  Jewell  &  Vinson  Company  and  D.  Gruen  Sons  &  Company. 

He  is  a  Republican  and  was  elected  judge  of  probate  of  Mont- 
gomery County  for  two  terms  from  1891  to  1900.  He  is  a  Scottish 
Rite  Mason,  thirty-second  degree.  He  has  not  married. 

In  reply  to  a  question  of  the  Class  Secretary  he  sent  the  follow- 
ing account  of  the  1913  flood  at  Dayton: 

"I  was  surely  very  much  in  the  flood.  Our  dwelling  got  it  in 
the  second  story.  Everything  I  was  interested  in  in  Dayton  was 
washed  out  or  burned. 

"We  had  a  beautiful  city  here  and  the  damage  done  by  the  flood 
cannot  be  estimated.  The  water  with  amazingly  swift  current 
swept  through  the  main  business  and  best  residence  sections  of 
the  city,  destroying  all  business  stocks  of  merchandise  on  ground 
floors  and  most  of  our  fine  homes. 

"You  would  be  surprised  to  see  how  cheerfully  everyone  takes 
his  misfortune  and  discomfort.  Each  knows  his  neighbor  has 
suffered  as  much  as  himself  and  that  there  is  nothing  to  do  but 
get  to  work  and  repair  the  damage  as  soon  as  possible  and  forget  it. 

"There  were  circumstances  connected  with  the  Dayton  flood  for 
which  her  people  are  very  thankful  and  cause  them  in  a  large 
measure  to  forget  property  loss.  The  water  came  shortly  after 
daylight  on  a  warm  day.  The  school  children  hadn't  left  their 
homes  and  most  men  were  still  at  home.  A  little  later  the  flood 
would  have  drowned  thousands.  Then  through  some  kind  provi- 
dence the  fires,  which  certainly  were  terrifying  to  people  surrounded 
by  swiftly  running  water  from  ten  to  twenty  feet  deep,  in  no  case 
spread  over  a  large  district  and  people  in  burning  buildings  all 
managed  to  escape  to  those  adjoining. 

"The  disaster  has  caused  an  endless  amount  of  work  and 
numerous  individual  and  municipal  problems.  We  have  all  been 
as  busy  as  we  well  could  be  and  we  think  we  see  our  way  clear  to 
a  larger,  better  governed  and  more  beautiful  city  than  ever. 

"The  rest  of  the  country  has  been  very  thoughtful  and  kind  and 
is  extending  credit  in  such  a  manner  as  will  soon  put  our  business 
community  on  its  feet.  Personally,  I  am  all  right  in  health  and 
otherwise  contented." 


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271 


*Henry  Ivison 

Died  April  8,  1910 

Henry  Ivison,  son  of  David  Brinkerhoff  and  Emeline    (Crane) 
Ivison,  was  born   July    12,    1865,   in   Rutherford,   N.    J.      He  was 
prepared    for    college    at    D.    S. 
Everson's   School  in   New  York 
City.       Entering    with     '86     he 
joined   our   Class   in   Sophomore 
year.     He  was  a  member  of  the 
Bicycle      Club,      Delta      Kappa 
Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the 
office  of  Ivison,  Blakeman  & 
Company,  publishers,  of  New 
York  City,  and  in  1888  became  a 
member  of  the  firm.  In  May, 
1890,  this  firm  was  merged  in 
the  American  Book  Company, 
and  he  was  in  charge  of  the 
manufacturing  department.  Dur- 
ing this  time  his  home  was  in 
Rutherford,  N.  J.,  and  he  was 
for  two  years  president  of  the 
Board  of  Health  there.  In 
1900  he  was  for  a  short  time  a 
member  of  the  New  York  Stock 

Exchange,  and  since  then  had  not  been  regularly  engaged  in  busi- 
ness. While  at  a  sanitarium  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  he  died  from 
a  self-inflicted  bullet  wound,  April  8,  1910. 

He  was  married  May  16,  1888,  to  Bertha,  daughter  of  Charles 
W.  Hollinshead,  deceased,  formerly  of  Philadelphia.  They  had 
two  children: 

Henry,  Jr.,  born  March  13,  1889. 

Sterling  Hollinshead,  born  April  26,  1892. 


HENRY  Ivisosr 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


ROBERT  IRVING  JENKS 


Robert  Irving  Jenks 

Manager  of  the  Berwind- White  Coal  Mining  Company,   1   Broadway, 
New  York  City 

Residence,  54  East  Sixty-fourth  Street,  New  York  City 

Robert  I.  Jenks  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.,  January  17,  1865, 
the  son  of  Edward  A.  and  Harriet  S.  (Stickney)  Jenks.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  Newport,  N.  H.,  where  he  was  prepared  by 
private  tutoring.  In  college  he  received  a  third  premium  in  English 
composition,  a  high  oration  Junior  and  an  oration  Senior  appoint- 
ment and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  business  manager 
of  the  Glee  Club  and  of  the  Yale  Courant,  an  editor  of  Pot-Pourri 
and  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

Since  graduation  he  has  been  in  the  coal  business,  the  first  four 
years  in  Chicago,  but  since  1892  in  New  York.  Here  he  was  for 


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a  long  time  with  Stickney,  Conyngham  &  Company,  of  which  firm 
he  became  a  member,  but  he  is  now  manager  for  the  Berwind- 
White  Coal  Mining  Company.  He  is  also  treasurer  of  the  Bretton 
Woods  Company,  vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  Kentland  Coal 
&  Coke  Company,  and  a  director  of  the  Staples  Coal  Company,  the 
International  Coal  Company  and  the  Interborough-Metropolitan 
Company. 

He  attends  the  Episcopal  church  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  University,  Yale,  Metropolitan,  City  Midday, 
Riding  and  Parmachenee  clubs  of  New  York,  the  Graduates  Club 
of  New  Haven  and  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 

On  March  29,  1894-,  he  married  Mabel  Runnells,  daughter  of 
John  S.  Runnells  of  Chicago. 


Charles  Bulkley  Jennings 

Assistant  Treasurer  of  the  Southport  Savings  Bank,  Southport,  Conn. 
Residence,  Fairfield,  Conn. 

Charles  B.  Jennings  is  a  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  E.  (Bulkley) 
Jennings,  who  were  married  October  9,  1855,  and  had  one  other 
child,  Mary  Eliza,  who  died  February  17,  1871,  at  Fairfield,  Conn. 
Isaac  Jennings,  the  son  of  Abraham  Gould  and  Anna  (Burr) 
Jennings,  and  brother  of  Lewis  Burr  Jennings,  Yale  '47,  was  born 
in  Fairfield,  Conn.,  April  3,  1823,  and  died  in  that  place  March 
17,  1887.  He  was  descended  from  Joshua  Jennings,  who  came 
to  this  country  from  England  about  1615  and  settled  in  Hartford, 
Conn.  From  1867  to  1887  he  was  a  partner  in  a  mercantile  and 
manufacturing  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Jennings  Brothers. 
In  1879  and  again  in  1882,  he  was  a  representative  to  the  Con- 
necticut General  Assembly.  Mary  Elizabeth  Bulkley,  born  July 
10,  1832,  at  Southport,  Conn.,  and  died  at  Fairfield,  March  10, 
1892,  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  (Beers)  Bulkley 
and  a  descendant  of  Rev.  Peter  Bulkley,  the  founder  of  Concord, 
Mass. 

Jennings  was  born  at  Fairfield,  October  21,  1865,  and  has 
always  resided  there.  He  was  prepared  at  the  Bridgeport  High 


274 


BIOGRAPHIES 


CHARLES   BULKLEY   JENNINGS 


School  and  in  college  received  dissertation  appointments  in  both 
Junior  and  Senior  years  and  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club. 

From  graduation  until  1904  he  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  Japanese  paper  ware,  under  the  name  of  Jennings  Brothers. 
From  1904  to  1910  he  was  not  in  active  business  but  was  occupied 
with  the  settlement  and  care  of  estates.  Since  1910  he  has  been 
assistant  treasurer  of  the  Southport  Savings  Bank. 

He  attends  the  Congregational  church  and  is  treasurer  of  the 
First  Ecclesiastical  Society  of  Fairfield,  Conn.  In  politics  he  is 
a  Republican.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Southport  Savings  Bank, 
the  Fairfield  Memorial  Library,  the  Oaklawn  Cemetery  Association, 
trustee  and  secretary  of  the  Gould  Homestead  Vacation  Home  for 
Women,  treasurer  and  secretary  of  the  Fairfield  Cemetery  Asso- 
ciation, and  treasurer  of  the  Country  Club  of  Fairfield. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  Bridgeport,  the  Bridge- 
port Automobile  Club,  the  Connecticut  Automobile  Association  and 


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the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Fairfield  County.  His  principal 
recreation  is  automobiling,  of  which  he  has  been  an  enthusiastic 
devotee  since  1904.  His  travels  have  been  limited  to  summer 
vacation  trips  by  auto,  covering  all  sections  of  New  England  and 
portions  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey. 

He  was  married  November  17,  1892,  at  Fairfield,,  to  Mary 
Elizabeth,,  daughter  of  Samuel  Morehouse,  teacher  and  principal 
in  the  New  York  public  schools.,  and  Angeline  (Burr)  Morehouse, 
and  sister  of  Samuel  C.  Morehouse,  Yale  '85  L.  Mrs.  Jennings 
was  educated  at  Rye  Seminary,  Rye,  N.  Y.  They  have  had  two 
children : 

Anne  Elizabeth,  born  December  19,  1893,  in  Fairfield,  Conn. 

Marjorie  Burr,  born  November  27,  1896,  and  died  December  8, 
1897,  in  Fairfield,  Conn. 


Oliver  Gould  Jennings 

Capitalist,  51  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 

Residences,  Fairfield,  Conn.,  and  7  East  Seventy-second  Street, 
New  York  City 

Oliver  G.  Jennings,  cousin  of  Charles  B.  Jennings,  '87,  is  a  son  of 
Oliver  Burr  and  Esther  Judson  (Goodsell)  Jennings,  who  were 
married  December  13,  1855,  and  had  four  other  children:  Walter, 
Yale  '80,  Annie  B.,  Helen  (Jennings)  James,  and  Emma  B.  (Jen- 
nings) Auchincloss.  Oliver  B.  Jennings  was  born  June  3,  1825, 
at  Fairfield,  Conn.,  and  died  in  New  York  City,  February  12,  1893. 
He  was  a  son  of  Abraham  Gould  and  Anna  (Burr)  Jennings  and  a 
descendant  of  Peter  Burr,  who  came  to  Boston  with  Governor 
Winthrop  in  1630.  He  was  a  merchant  in  San  Francisco,  Calif., 
of  the  firm  of  Jennings  &  Brewster  and  later  was  associated  with 
the  Standard  Oil  Company.  Esther  Judson  (Goodsell)  Jennings 
was  born  April  1,  1828,  in  New  York  City,  and  died  April  25, 
1908,  in  that  place.  She  was  of  Welsh  and  English  descent, 
ancestors  settling  in  this  country  about  1650. 

Jennings  was  born  in  New  York  City,  April  27,  1865.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Fairfield,  Conn.,  and  he  was  prepared  at 


BIOGRAPHIES 


OLIVER  GOULD  JENNINGS 


Andover.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  University  Club, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Columbia  University  in 
1889,  but  has  never  engaged  in  active  practice,  devoting  his  time 
chiefly  to  extensive  business  interests.  He  has  his  office  in  New 
York,  but  resides  in  Fairfield.  He  is  a  director  and  a  vice-president 
of  the  American  Trading  Company. 

He  is  a  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  Fairfield,  and 
a  pewholder  of  St.  James  in  New  York  City.  He  is  a  director  of 
the  Babies'  Hospital  of  New  York  City.  He  is  interested  in  all 
out-of-door  sports. 

He  was  married  December  16,  1896,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Mary  Dows,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Elmina  (Dows)  Brewster, 
of  New  York.  They  have  two  children: 

Benjamin  Brewster,  born  June  9,  1898. 

Lawrence  Kirtland,  born  December  12,  1903. 


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277 


*Allen  Warclner  Johnson 

Died  June  9,  1905 

Allen   W.   Johnson   was   the  youngest   of   the   eight   children   of 
Alexander  George  and  Charlotte  (Wardner)  Johnson.     The  father, 
born  February  14,  1813,  in  Newbury,  Vt.,  died  February  7,  1879, 
when  the  son  was  but  twelve  years  old.     He  was  a  graduate  of 
Dartmouth    in     1837,    with    Phi 
Beta  Kappa  rank,  and  became  a 
lawyer    and   journalist,    locating 
in  Troy,  N.  Y.     His  wife,  Char- 
lotte Wardner,  was  the  daughter 
of  Allen  Wardner,  of  Windsor, 
Vt.     Her  sister  married  William 
Maxwell    Evarts,    LL.D.,    Yale 
1837. 

Johnson  was  born  in  Troy, 
N.  Y.,  December  13,  1866,  and 
prepared  at  the  Brooklyn  Poly- 
technic Institute.  In  college  he 
received  a  second  prize  at  Junior 
Exhibition  and  a  Townsend  pre- 
mium and  was  a  member  of  the 
Class  Day  Committee,  the  Pundit 
Club  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a 
year  as  a  private  tutor,  chiefly  in 
California,  and  after  returning 
east  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of 

Panama,  was  with  the  Waterbury  Clock  Company  for  nearly  a 
year.  For  some  time,  from  May,  1889,  he  was  private  secretary 
of  United  States  Senator  William  M.  Evarts  and  clerk  of  the 
Joint  Commission  of  Congress  on  the  Library  of  Congress,  and 
while  in  Washington,  he  also  began  the  study  of  law  in  Columbian 
(now  George  Washington)  University.  In  December,  1891,  he 
entered  the  law  office  of  Sherman  Evarts  (Yale  '81)  in  New 
York  City,  and  continued  his  studies  in  Columbia  Law  School. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  December  5,  1892,  and  was  for  some 


ALLEN  WARDNER  JOHNSON 


278  BIOGRAPHIES 


years  in  the  office  of  Anderson,  Howland  &  Murray  and  its  suc- 
cessors, after  which  he  practiced  alone.  He  was  candidate  for  city 
judge  in  New  York  in  1901. 

Failing  health  forced  him  to  give  up  practice,  and  in  the  spring 
of  1904  he  again  went  to  California,  where  he  died  very  suddenly 
of  nephritis  with  cerebral  hemorrhage,  at  Nordhoff,  June  9,  1905. 

He  was  unmarried. 

[For  further  biographical  notice,  see  Vicennial  Record,  pages 
128-129.] 

Charles  Keeler 

Retail  Grocer,  1274  Madison  Avenue,  Memphis,  Tenn. 
Residence,  1789  Linden  Avenue,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

Charles  Keeler  is  a  son  of  Delos  Milton  and  Catherine  Gould 
(Taylor)  Keeler,  who  were  married  October  31,  1856,  and  had 
two  other  children:  Henry  Taylor  and  Catherine  Keeler,  B.A. 
Smith  '92,  M.A.  '04,  associate  professor  of  English,  Wells  College. 
The  paternal  branch  of  the  family  is  descended  from  Ralph  Keeler, 
who  came  from  England  in  1634  and  settled  at  Norwalk,  Conn. 
Delos  Milton  Keeler  was  born  September  24,  1815,  in  Kortright 
Center,  Delaware  County,  N.  Y.,  and  died  October  1,  1868,  in 
Auburn,  N.  Y.,  where  he  had  resided  since  1831.  He  was  a  con- 
tractor and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Auburn  Manufacturing 
Company.  He  married  as  his  first  wife,  Elizabeth  M.  Ten  Eyck, 
and  they  had  two  children:  Elizabeth  Ten  Eyck  (died  January  9, 
1886,  in  Auburn)  and  Mary  Alida  (Keeler)  Stout.  Catherine 
Gould  Taylor,  our  classmate's  mother,  was  born  December  16, 
1817,  in  Boston,  Mass.,  and  died  September  14,  1890,  in  Auburn, 
N.  Y.  She  was  of  English  descent,  her  ancestors  coming  to  Lynn, 
Mass.,  in  1642. 

Keeler  was  born  January  9,  1863,  in  Auburn,  where  his  boyhood 
was  spent,  and  he  was  prepared  at  the  Auburn  Academic  High 
School.  At  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club. 

From  1887  until  1900  he  was  in  the  railroad  business,  being  in 
the  employ  of  the  Kansas  City,  Memphis  &  Birmingham  Railroad, 


GRADUATES 


CHARLES   KEELER 


at  Birmingham,  Ala.,  and  at  Memphis,  Tenn.  Since  that  time  he 
has  been  engaged  in  the  retail  grocery  business  in  Memphis,  and 
is  president  of  the  Memphis  Retail  Merchants'  Association  and  Rite 
Store,  Inc. 

He  is  a  vestryman  and  treasurer  of  St.  Luke's  Episcopal  Church. 
He  is  a  Republican  on  national  and  a  Democrat  on  local  issues,  a 
member  of  the  Associated  Charities  in  Memphis,  and  of  the  Busi- 
ness Men's  Club. 

He  was  married  February  12,  1890,  to  Mollie  Lee,  daughter  of 
George  Barrow,  a  merchant,  and  Mary  Ann  (Lunt)  Barrow,  of 
Memphis.  They  have  four  children,  all  born  in  Memphis,  Tenn.: 

Nellie  May,  born  January  4,  1891,  married  Rosser  Bernard 
Hart,  in  May,  1910,  and  has  one  daughter,  Dorothy  Lee,  born 
December  21,  1911,  and  one  son,  George  Barrow,  born  October 
25,  1913. 

Charles  Barrow,  born  August  3,  1892,  married  Hallie  Bobo,  in 


280  BIOGRAPHIES 


June,  1911,  and  had  one  son,  Charles  Barrow,  Jr.,  born  July  21, 
1912,  and  died  February  22,  1914. 

George  Henry,  born  December  17,  1894. 

Mary  Catherine,  born  February  23,  1899. 

In  his  personal  letter,  he  says: 

"I  have  endeavored  to  follow  President  Eliot's  advice  to  the 
Freshman  Class  at  Harvard  last  fall,  i.e.,  I  married  early  enough 
in  life  so  that  my  children  might  in  turn  have  children  for  me  to 
enjoy  while  yet  in  active  life  myself.  Consequently  my  greatest 
pleasure  now  is  in  being  with  my  children  and  grandchildren  and 
sharing  their  pleasures  and  sorrows." 

*John  Bassett  Keep 

Died  April  9,  1901 

John  B.  Keep,  son  of  Dr.  John  Lester  Keep  and  Sarah  Coit 
(Avery)  Keep,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  October  20,  1866.  He 

prepared  at  Adelphi  Academy, 
Brooklyn,  and  in  college  was  a 
member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 
and  Wolf's  Head. 

After  graduation  he  studied 
medicine  for  three  years  at  the 
New  York  Homeopathic  Medi- 
cal School,  but  did  not  graduate. 
In  1896  he  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Corn  Exchange  National 
Bank  in  New  York  City,  where 
he  remained  until  the  time  of  his 
death. 

He  was  a  member  of  a  num- 
ber of  Brooklyn  and  New  York 
clubs  and  organizations. 

His  death  occurred  in  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  April  9,  1901. 
JOHN  BASSETT  KEEP  He  was  unmarried. 


GRADUATES  281 


*William  Burrage  Kendall,  Jr. 

Died  October  3,  1893 

William  B.  Kendall,  Jr.,  only  son  of  William  Burrage  and 
Harriet  M.  Kendall,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  September  10, 
1865.  He  prepared  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Institute. 

Upon  graduation  he  went  into  his  father's  business,  in  New 
York  City,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  was  junior  member  of 
the  firm  of  W.  B.  Kendall  & 
Son,  sole  agents  for  the  Bigelow 
Carpet  Company,  of  Clinton, 
Mass.  He  died  in  Brooklyn, 
after  an  illness  of  several  months, 
from  enteritis,  on  October  3, 
1893. 

He  was  married  December  1, 
1891,  to  Helen  E.  Stillman, 
daughter  of  Thomas  E.  Still- 
man, of  Brooklyn.  They  had 
one  child: 

Elizabeth  Stillman,  born  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  August  25, 


[Resolutions,  prepared  upon 
his  death,  are  printed  on  page 
26  of  the  Sexennial  Record.]  WILLIAM  BURRAGE  KENDALL,  JR. 

William  Kent 

Member  of  House  of  Representatives,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Residence,  Kentfield,  Calif. 

William  Kent  is  a  son  of  Albert  Emmett  and  Adaline  (Button) 
Kent,  who  were  married  July  28,  1857,  and  had  two  other  children: 
Albert  E.  (born  July  3,  1858,  died  March  12,  1861)  and  Mary 
Kent  (born  January  6,  1862,  died  December  28,  1890).  Albert 
Emmett  Kent  was  born  September  1,  1830,  in  Suffield,  Conn.,  and 


282  BIOGRAPHIES 


died  January  8,  1901,  in  Genoa,  Nebr.  He  was  the  son  of  Albert 
and  Lucinda  (Gillette)  Kent  and  was  of  English  descent.  He 
graduated  from  Yale  in  the  Class  of  1853  and  then  engaged  in 
the  produce  business  in  Chicago,  and  became  practically  the 
founder  of  the  packing  industry  of  Chicago.  His  health  broke 
under  the  pressure  of  business  and  he  was  compelled  to  seek  rest 
and  quiet  in  California.  He  took  up  his  residence  in  San  Rafael 
in  1871,  but  spent  part  of  his  time  in  Chicago,  taking  care  of  his 
business  interests.  He  will  always  be  remembered  by  his  gift  to 
Yale  of  the  chemical  laboratory  which  bears  his  name,  and  which, 
as  its  founder,  he  generously  remembered  in  his  will.  Our  class- 
mate's mother,  Adaline  (Button)  Kent,  was  born  in  Springville, 
N.  Y.,  March  3,  1834,  and  died  March  16,  1914.  She  was  of 
English  and  Welsh  ancestry. 

Kent  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  March  29,  1864,  and  his  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  San  Rafael,  Calif.  He  was  prepared  in  schools 
in  California,  by  private  tutoring  and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School.  In  college  he  received  a  first  and  a  third  prize  for  Eng- 
lish composition,  was  Freshman  member  of  the  Courant  board, 
Class  historian,  and  editor  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine,  and  a 
member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Skull  and  Bones  and  Chi  Delta 
Theta. 

Kent  is  engaged  in  the  land  and  livestock  business  with  the  Kent 
&  Burke  Company  (Burke,  his  partner,  is  E.  L.  Burke,  of  '87), 
of  Genoa,  Nebr.,  and  with  the  Golconda  Cattle  Company,  of 
Golconda,  Nev. 

He  received  an  honorary  M.A.  from  Yale  in  1908.  In  politics 
he  is  an  independent  and  was  a  member  of  the  city  council  of 
Chicago  from  1895  to  1897.  He  is  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Representatives,  having  been  elected  from  the  second  district  of 
California  for  the  term  1911  to  1913,  and  reflected  from  the  new 
first  district,  1913-15  and  1915-17.  He  was  a  trustee  of  All  Souls 
(Independent)  Church  of  Chicago.  He  writes: 

"I  left  for  Chicago  immediately  on  graduation,  where  I  had  to 
take  up  the  management  of  my  father's  estate,  consisting  of  city 
real  estate,  corporate  investments,  two  large  ranches  and  land 
scattered  in  several  states.  In  1890  I  started  as  a  director  in  a 
new  bank  and  had  seventeen  years'  work  along  that  line  in  con- 


GRADUATES 


•r 

^." 


WILLIAM   KENT 


nection  with  other  interests.  I  resided  in  Chicago  from  graduation 
until  1907,  then  moved  to  California.  Most  of  my  traveling  has 
been  either  in  connection  with  business  or  for  recreation  in  hunting 
and  camping  in  the  roughest  parts  of  the  country.  I  have  interests 
that  have  taken  me  to  Mexico  and  British  Columbia,  and  have  made 
two  trips  to  Hawaii.  My  recreation  has  been  largely  hunting  and 
fishing  with  light  attacks  of  golf  in  my  old  age.  I  have  not  read 
as  much  as  I  should,  but  have  tried  to  keep  up  with  good  stuff, 
and  have  studiously  avoided  the  reading  of  philosophy;  have  re- 
verted to  the  classics  (translated)  and  have  great  interest  in  the 
literary  features  of  the  Old  Testament.  My  especial  interest  has 
been  in  the  line  of  endeavoring  to  extend  democratic  ideas  and  to 
fight  the  forces  and  courses  that  would  break  down  the  possibilities 
of  democratic  development.  I  can't  say  that  I  have  accomplished 
much,  but,  anyhow,  I  have  tried.  I  believe  the  best  service  that  I 
can  render  is  in  backing  people  who  are  going  the  right  way;  have 
not  and  never  have  had  any  political  ambition." 


884  BIOGRAPHIES 


Kent  was  married  February  26,  1890,  in  Ojai  Valley,  Calif.,  to 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the  late  Professor  Thomas  A.  Thacher,  Yale 
'35,  and  Elizabeth  Baldwin  (Sherman)  Thacher.  Mrs.  Kent  is  a 
sister  of  W.  L.  Thacher,  '87.  They  have  seven  children: 

Albert  Emmett,  Yale  '13,  born  December  8,  1890. 

Thomas  Thacher,  Yale  '15,  born  May  8,  1892. 

Elizabeth  Sherman,  born  January  8,  1894,  Westover  '13;  mar- 
ried February  26,  1915,  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  to  George  Stanleigh 
Arnold,  Yale  '03. 

William,  Jr.,  Yale  '17,  born  July  5,  1895. 

Adaline  Button,  born  August  7,  1900. 

Sherman,  born  December  6,  1904. 

Roger,  born  June  8,  1906. 

Albert  Emmett  Kent  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Thacher  School. 
He  was  on  the  Water  Polo  Team,  president  of  the  Yale  Thacher 
Club,  and  a  member  of  the  Friars  and  Zeta  Psi. 


Henry  Belden  Ketcham 

Lawyer,  2  Rector  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  108  Willow  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Henry  B.  Ketcham  is  a  son  of  John  Henry  and  Augusta  A. 
(Belden)  Ketcham,  who  were  married  in  February,  1859,  and  had 
two  other  children:  Charles  B.  Ketcham,  B.A.  Swarthmore 
College  '92,  and  Ethel  B.  Ketcham,  B.A.  Radcliffe  College  '99. 
John  Henry  Ketcham  was  born  in  Dover  Plains,  Dutchess  County, 
N.  Y.,  December  21,  1832,  and  died  in  New  York  City,  November 
2,  1906.  He  was  of  English  descent,  ancestors  coming  to  America 
soon  after  the  Pilgrims  and  settling  first  in  Connecticut.  He  was 
a  farmer  and  marble  dealer  and  was  very  active  in  politics,  being  a 
member  of  the  State  Assembly  from  1856  to  1857,  of  the  New  York 
State  Senate  from  1860  to  1861,  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
from  1865  to  1873,  from  1877  to  1893,  and  1897  to  1907.  He  was 
also  colonel  of  the  150th  New  York  Volunteers  from  1862  to  1865 
and  chairman  of  commissioners,  Washington,  D.  C.,  from  1872  to 
1876.  Augusta  A.  Belden  was  born  in  New  York  City,  April  22, 


GRADUATES 


285 


HENRY  BELDEN  KETCHAM 


1838,  the  daughter  of  William  H.  Belden,  who  was  of  French 
descent.  She  was  educated  at  the  Hudson  Female  Academy, 
Hudson,  N.  Y. 

Ketcham  was  born  at  Dover  Plains,  N.  Y.,  August  8,  1865,  and 
spent  his  boyhood  in  that  place.  He  was  prepared  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Exeter.  In  college  he  received  a  second  colloquy  Junior 
and  a  first  colloquy  Senior  appointment.  He  was  on  the  Freshman 
Football  Team,  and  was  editor  of  the  Yale  News  and  a  member  of 
Psi  Upsilon. 

In  1889  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Columbia  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  February  of  the  same  year.  After 
graduation  he  read  law  with  Simpson,  Thacher  &  Bartlett  and  later 
became  managing  clerk  for  Tracy,  MacFarland,  Boardman  &  Platt. 
With  E.  J.  Esselstyn  (Yale  '83)  and  P.  P.  Safford,  he  established 
the  firm  of  Esselstyn,  Ketcham  &  Safford.  Safford  withdrew  in 
1896  and  Clarence  L.  Reid  (Yale  '77)  joined,  the  firm  becoming 
Reid,  Esselstyn  &  Ketcham.  He  continued  in  partnership  with 


286  BIOGRAPHIES 


Mr.  Esselstyn,  after  Mr.  Reid's  death  in  1907,  for  three  years, 
but  since  1910  has  practiced  independently.  He  is  a  director  of 
the  American  Malting  Company  and  of  the  Livingston  Realty 
Company. 

He  is  a  member  of  Holy  Trinity  Episcopal  Church  of  Brook- 
lyn and  in  politics  is  a  Republican.  He  has  been  interested  in 
politics  and  has  taken  an  active  part  in  state  and  national  cam- 
paigns on  the  stump.  He  was  a  candidate  for  representative  in 
Congress  on  the  Republican  ticket  in  1900  and  for  district  attorney 
for  Kings  County  in  1904,  but  was  defeated  in  both  campaigns. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  assessors  of  New  York  City  in 
1901-02,  having  been  appointed  by  Mayor  Low. 

He  is  a  member  and  a  trustee  of  the  Improved  Order  of 
Heptasophs,  a  life  member  of  the  Crescent  Athletic  Club  and  was 
on  its  board  of  governors  from  1903  to  1905  and  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Hamilton  and  Oxford  clubs  of  Brooklyn,  the  Dyker  Meadow 
Golf  Club,  the  New  York  and  the  Brooklyn  Bar  associations,  the 
Yale  Club  of  New  York  and  the  Dutchess  Club  of  Poughkeepsie. 

He  was  married  September  12,  1889,  at  Englewood,  N.  J.,  to 
Sallie  Bray,  daughter  of  Samuel  Kendall  Holman,  vice-president  of 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company,  and  Sally  (Roundey)  Hol- 
man. They  have  three  children: 

Henry  Holman,  Yale  '14,  born  June  17,  1891,  in  Englewood, 
N.  J. 

Katharine  Holman,  born  October  28,  1894,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
She  attended  Brooklyn  Heights  Seminary  and  Miss  Porter's  School 
in  Farmington,  Conn. 

John  Belden,  born  July  31,  1896,  in  Bay  Shore,  N.  Y.  He 
attended  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  and  the  Hotchkiss  School  in  Lake- 
ville,  Conn. 

Henry  Holman  Ketcham  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Hotchkiss 
School.  He  was  a  member  of  the  University  Football  Team  three 
years  and  captain  Senior  year.  He  was  on  the  Track  Squad,  Fresh- 
man Religious  Committee,  Sophomore  German  and  Junior  Prom 
committees  and  the  Senior  Council.  He  was  a  Class  Deacon  and 
a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones. 


GRADUATES 


287 


JOHN  SCOTT  KING 


John  Scott  King 

Pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  Little  Britain,  N.  Y. 
Residence,  Little  Britain,  N.  Y. 

J.  Scott  King  is  a  son  of  Robert  Campbell  and  Rachel  (Scott) 
King,  who  were  married  in  I860,,  and  had  three  other  children: 
Rachel,  Thomas  (died  in  1861)  and  Elizabeth  (died  in  1863). 
Robert  Campbell  King  was  born  in  Paisley,  Scotland,  in  1819,  and 
died  in  Unionville,  Conn.,  in  August,  1875.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Mexican  War  and  in  the  regular  army  of  the  United  States.  Our 
classmate's  mother  was  born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  in  1832,  and 
died  in  Unionville,  Conn.,  in  March,  1890. 

King  was  born  at  Warehouse  Point,  Conn.,  January  29,  1866. 
His  boyhood  was  spent  at  Unionville,  Conn.,  and  he  was  prepared 
at  the  high  school  of  that  place.  In  college  he  received  a  second 
dispute  appointment  in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Pundit  Club. 


288  BIOGRAPHIES 


He  graduated  from  the  Union  Theological  Seminary  of  New 
York  City  in  1890  and  a  month  later  became  pastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  at  Little  Britain,  N.  Y.,  where  he  still  is.  He  is  also 
secretary  of  the  Little  Britain  Feed  Company,  lecturer  of  the 
Orange  County  Grange,  recording  secretary  of  the  Orange  County 
Bible  Society,  stated  clerk  of  the  Presbytery  of  North  River,  Synod 
of  New  York,  and  clerk  of  his  school  district.  He  is  a  Progressive 
in  politics  and  has  done  active  work  on  the  stump  in  behalf  of  "no 
license."  Many  of  his  sermons  and  addresses  have  been  published 
in  daily  papers  and  one  on  "Demon  Milk"  was  published  by 
papers  as  far  west  as  Oregon.  "It  received  in  one  paper,  an  edi- 
torial article,  defending  it,  comparing  it  to  Don  Quixote,  ahem!" 

He  sends  the  following  account  of  his  work: 

"I  have  as  pastor  of  the  church  here  taken  hold  of  cooperative 
buying  of  feed,  etc.,  for  the  benefit  of  the  farmers,  and  have  entered 
into  all  sorts  of  work  looking  to  farmers'  welfare.  I  test  milk 
with  the  Babcock  test  for  all  who  wish,  advise  about  feeds,  breeds 
and  about  everything  else;  make  wills  for  people,  settle  estates, 
doctor  illness  in  a  slight  way,  help  surgeons  in  a  pinch  and  do 
everything  that  belongs  to  helping  the  community  along. 

"For  ten  years  I  have  been  the  spokesman  of  the  County 
(Orange)  in  the  Grange  movement,  holding  conferences,  obtaining 
speakers  (experts)  on  all  agricultural  topics. 

"I  preach  twice  every  Sunday  and  have  for  twenty-two  years, 
besides  traveling  around  Ulster,  Sullivan  and  Orange  counties, 
addressing  farmers'  meetings  for  the  last  ten  years.  As  a  presbyter 
I  am  interested  in  the  welfare  of  thirty  Presbyterian  churches, 
known  as  the  Presbytery  of  North  River,  of  which  I  am  stated 
clerk,  in  whose  bounds  I  frequently  give  addresses. 

"I  have  traveled  little  in  the  long,  but  much  in  the  short.  I 
play  tennis,  baseball  and  croquet,  run  a  literary  society,  which  even 
dares  to  tackle  Billy  Phelps'  'saint,'  Browning,  keep  up  a  book- 
club for  members  and  for  sixteen  years  have  guided  the  business 
of  the  post  office  here,  being,  for  the  convenience  of  the  public, 
postmaster  for  three  years.  My  life  has  been  busy,  but  I  have  had 
a  'bully'  time." 

King  was  married  June  23,  1890,  to  Elizabeth  Fearn,  of  Pater- 


GRADUATES  289 


son,  N.  J.,  and  they  have  had  seven  children,  all  born  at  Little 
Britain: 

Everett  Scott,  born  April  24,   1891. 

Rachel,  born  October  4,  1893. 

Elizabeth,  born  August  25,  1895. 

John  Addison,  born  August  2,  1897,  and  died  August  1,  1899. 

Robert  Campbell,  born  May  10,  1900,  and  died  September  29, 
1904. 

Donald  Fearn,  born  June  4,  1902,  and  died  October  6,  1904. 

Margaret,  born  February  17,  1909. 

A  nephew,  Robert  King  Vibert,  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
1897,  Yale  College. 


John  Henry  Kirkham 

Partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Kirkham  &  Cooper,  New  Britain,  Conn. 
Residence,  49  Cedar  Street,  New  Britain,  Conn. 

John  H.  Kirkham  is  a  son  of  John  Stoddard  and  Harriet  Pru- 
dence (Atwood)  Kirkham,  who  were  married  December  1,  1859, 
and  had  three  other  children:  Thomas  A.,  Frances  H.  (Kirkham) 
Kellogg  (died  at  Newington,  Conn.,  about  1900),  and  Mary  A. 
(Kirkham)  Hine  (died  in  Coin,  Germany,  February  16,  1906),  who 
married  Roderick  W.  Hine,  Yale  '84.  John  Stoddard  Kirkham 
was  born  April  6,  1826,  at  Newington,  Conn.,  and  is  of  English 
descent,  ancestors  settling  in  Wethersfield  about  1670.  He  is  a 
farmer,  and  has  been  Connecticut  state  senator,  representative 
and  member  of  the  Board  of  Agriculture.  He  was  married  a  second 
time  to  Mary  Kellogg  Atwood,  Mount  Holyoke  '49,  January  17, 
1885.  Harriet  Prudence  Atwood,  our  classmate's  mother,  was 
born  May  17,  1827,  at  Newington,  and  died  in  that  place,  December 
1,  1882.  She  attended  Mount  Holyoke  Seminary  in  the  year  1844. 
She  was  also  of  English  descent,  and  a  sister  of  Charles  K.  Atwood, 
Yale  '43. 

Kirkham  was  born  at  Newington,  Conn.,  April  13,  1865,  and  his 
boyhood  was  spent  in  that  place.  He  was  prepared  at  the  New 
Britain  High  School.  In  college  he  received  a  first  dispute  Senior 
appointment,  was  business  manager  of  the  Yale  News,  winner  of 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


JOHN  HENRY  KIRKHAM 


the  wrestling  events   in   1883   and   1884,   a   member   of  the   Class 
and  University  lacrosse  teams  and  of  the  Pundit  Club. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1889,  having  studied  law  in 
offices  in  Hartford,  and  was  until  1898  connected  with  the  firm  of 
Mitchell,  Hungerford  &  Bartlett,  New  Britain.  He  has  since  been 
senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Kirkham  &  Cooper,  his  partner  being 
J.  E.  Cooper,  Yale  '95.  He  is  a  director  of  the  National  Spring 
Bed  Company  of  New  Britain  and  of  several  other  local  corpora- 
tions. He  was  formerly  a  member  of  the  school  board  and  assistant 
judge  of  the  city  court  of  New  Britain.  He  writes: 

"I  have  not  distinguished  myself  in  any  way  outside  of  having 
a  couple  of  fine  children.  I  still  love  golf,  tennis,  billiards,  etc., 
and  occasionally  play  chess  and  whist.  I  sometimes  have  the 
feeling  that  I  was  born  to  be  a  gamester  and  ought  to  retire  very 
soon  and  take  up  sports  more  seriously.  It  has  been  a  lot  of  fun 
to  make  my  own  way,  and  life,  in  spite  of  Father  Time,  is  still 
very  pleasant.  The  best  thing  I  have  done  to  date  was  to  go  to 


GRADUATES  291 


Yale.  Great  days,  those!  Our  Twenty-fifth  Reunion  was  wonder- 
ful, nothing  was  ever  like  it." 

Kirkham  is  a  member  of  the  South  Congregational  Church  of  New 
Britain,  and  in  politics  was  a  Democrat  until  1896;  since  then  he 
has  been  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New  Britain  Club, 
the  Saturday  Night  Club  (a  literary  club),  and  the  University  Club 
of  Hartford.  He  is  Class  Agent  of  the  Alumni  University  Fund. 

He  was  married  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  April  29,  1896,  to  Lillian 
Sprague  West,  a  graduate  of  Adelphi  Academy.  They  have  two 
children : 

John  West,  born  August  20,  1898,  in  New  Britain. 

Lois,  born  February  13,  1904,  in  New  Britain. 

Charles  Asher  Knight,  M.D. 

Physician,  1028  Main  Street,  Peekskill,  N.  Y. 

Charles  A.  Knight  is  a  son  of  Charles  Calvin  and  Lucy  (Brown) 
Knight,  who  were  married  June  7,  1859,  and  had  two  other  chil- 
dren: Mabel  T.  and  Lucy  B.  Knight.  Charles  Calvin  Knight  was 
born  in  Stafford,  Conn.,  April  16,  1833,  and  is  still  living.  He 
is  descended  from  John  Knight,  who  came  from  England  and  settled 
in  Cambridge  in  1635.  He  attended  Munson  Academy  and  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  Medical  College  of  New  York 
University  in  1855.  He  has  served  as  an  interne  at  Children's 
Hospital,  Randall's  Island,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Westchester 
County  Medical  Society  and  of  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion, physician  to  St.  Joseph's  Home  and  president  of  the  Peeks- 
kill  Savings  Bank  and  director  in  the  Westchester  County  Na- 
tional Bank.  Our  classmate's  mother  was  born  February  25,  1840, 
at  West  Somers,  N.  Y.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Daniel 
Brown  of  Hancock,  N.  H.,  a  graduate  of  Williams  in  1837,  and 
Susan  (Tompkins)  Brown.  The  maternal  branch  of  the  family 
is  descended  from  Abijah  Brown,  who  came  from  England  and 
was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Nelson,  N.  H. 

Knight  was  born  October  19,  1864,  at  Peekskill,  where  his  boy- 
hood was  spent.  He  was  prepared  at  the  Peekskill  Military  Acad- 
emy and  at  Williston  Seminary.  In  college  he  received  a  second 
colloquy  Junior  and  a  second  dispute  Senior  appointment. 


BIOGRAPHIES 


CHARLES   ASHEH    KNIGHT 


After  graduation  he  entered  the  Medical  School  of  New  York 
University  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1890  with  the  rank  of 
second  in  his  class.  He  served  for  two  years  as  interne  at  Bellevue 
Hospital  and  has  since  been  practicing  medicine  in  Peekskill.  He 
is  physician  to  the  Peekskill  Hospital,  St.  Joseph's  Home  and  the 
Peekskill  Military  Academy. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  attends  the  Presbyterian 
church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Academy  of  Medicine, 
Westchester  County  Medical  Society,  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion, Society  of  the  Alumni  of  Bellevue  Hospital  and  one  of  the 
directors  of  the  Westchester  County  Yale  Alumni  Association. 

He  was  married  April  11,  1894,  to  Elizabeth  Olive,  daughter  of 
Lucius  Hastings  and  Anna  Louise  (Morton)  Sammis,  of  South 
Deerfield,  Mass.  They  have  two  children: 

Charles  Calvin,  born  April  18,  1898,  at  Peekskill. 

Olive  Louise,  born  April  15,  1902,  at  Peekskill. 


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Samuel  Knight 

Lawyer,  1303  Hobart  Building,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 
Residence,  Hillsborough  (Burlingame,  P.  O.),  San  Mateo  County,  Calif. 

Samuel  Knight  is  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Stuart  (Haight) 
Knight,  who  were  married  in  San  Francisco  in  I860,  and  had  two 
other  children:  Fletcher  H.  (died  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  May  29, 
1905)  and  Robert  S.  Knight,  University  of  California  '88.  Samuel 
Knight,  Sr.,  was  born  in  South  Dudley,  Mass.,  about  1821,  and  died 
in  San  Francisco,  Calif.,  April  26,  1866,  from  an  explosion  of  nitro- 
glycerine, then  an  unknown  explosive.  He  was  manager  of  the 
banking  department  of  Wells,  Fargo  &  Company  at  the  time  of  his 
death  and  was  also  commissioner  of  the  funded  debt  under  federal 
government  appointment.  Elizabeth  (Haight)  Knight  was  born 
March  16,  1833,  in  Rochester  and  died  in  the  city  of  her  birth  in 
September,  1907.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Judge  Fletcher  M. 
Haight,  who  was  appointed  by  President  Lincoln  as  the  first 
federal  judge  for  the  Southern  District  of  California,  and  grand- 
daughter of  General  Samuel  Haight,  brigadier  general  in  the  War 
of  1812,  commander  of  the  New  York  troops,  also  a  member  of  the 
New  York  Legislature,  in  which  capacity  he  introduced,  and  had 
passed,  a  bill  freeing  negroes  in  that  state.  Her  brother,  Henry 
H.  Haight,  governor  of  California  in  the  sixties,  was  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  1844,  Yale  College,  while  another  brother,  Dugald 
Cameron  Haight,  was  valedictorian  of  the  Class  of  1847,  and  her 
nephew,  Henry  H.  Haight,  Jr.,  was  graduated  in  1888. 

Knight  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  December  28,  1863,  and  his 
boyhood  was  spent  in  that  place  and  also  in  Oakland,  Calif.  He 
was  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.  In 
college  he  received  a  Berkeley  premium  for  Latin  composition  in 
Freshman  year,  high  oration  appointments  in  both  Junior  and 
Senior  years  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  one 
of  the  editors  of  the  Yale  Record  for  two  years,  president  of  the 
Yale  University  Boat  Club,  a  member  of  the  Class  Crew  for  three 
years,  on  the  Junior  Prom  Committee  and  a  member  of  Gamma 
Nu,  He  Boule,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones. 


BIOGRAPHIES 


SAMUEL  KNIGHT 


He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York  in  1889,  after  studying 
law  at  Yale,  at  Columbia,  where  he  received  his  degree  of  LL.B. 
in  1889,  and  in  law  offices  in  New  York.  In  the  summer  of  1890 
he  left  the  law  office  of  Evarts,  Choate  &  Beaman,  where  he  was 
clerk,  and  returned  to  California,  on  account  of  ill  health.  He 
spent  several  months  in  southern  California  regaining  his  health 
and  in  1891  commenced  practicing  in  San  Francisco.  In  1898  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  J.  A.  Cooper  under  the  firm  name  of 
Cooper  &  Knight,  which  was  dissolved  in  1899,  upon  Cooper's 
appointment  to  the  supreme  bench  of  that  state.  That  year  he 
entered  into  a  partnership  with  Charles  Page  (Yale  '68),  E.  J. 
McCutchen,  and  R.  T.  Harding  (University  of  California  '85). 
This  partnership  continued  with  various  minor  changes  until  Jan- 
uary 1,  1913,  at  which  time  it  was  dissolved,  following  the  death 
of  Mr.  Page,  in  1912.  Since  then  Knight  has  practiced  law  inde- 
pendently. From  1893  to  1897  he  was  assistant  United  States 
district  attorney,  and  during  the  winter  of  1897-98,  United  States 


GRADUATES  295 


district  attorney  for  the  Northern  District  of  California,  and  since 
1911  he  has  been  a  trustee  of  the  municipality  of  Hillsborough. 

He  is  a  Presbyterian,  and  in  politics,  though  formerly  a  Demo- 
crat, is  now  a  Republican.  In  1900-01  he  was  largely  instrumental 
in  breaking  up  the  notorious  Noyes-McKenzie  ring  in  northwestern 
Alaska,  which  had  illegally  seized  the  most  valuable  mining  proper- 
ties there.  He  was  one  of  the  active  promoters  of  an  unsuccessful 
political  campaign  for  municipal  reform  in  San  Francisco  in  1905, 
against  the  Ruef-Schmitz  so-called  labor  union  regime.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  California  Branch  of  the  National  Red  Cross  Society, 
is  a  former  member  of  Troop  A  (now  Squadron  A),  National  Guard 
of  New  York,  a  former  member  and  director  and  secretary  of  the 
University  Club  of  San  Francisco,  a  member  and  former  director 
and  secretary  of  the  Pacific  Union  Club,  a  member  of  the  Menlo 
Country  Club,  and  vice-president  of  the  Burlingame  Country  Club. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  San  Francisco  Bar  Association  and  other 
organizations  in  San  Francisco  of  an  economic  character.  In  1899- 
1900  and  1906-08  he  was  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Associa- 
tion of  California.  He  has  traveled  considerably  throughout  the 
United  States,  made  two  trips  to  Europe  in  1905  and  1910  respec- 
tively, and  his  travels  have  also  extended  to  Nome,  Alaska,  and  the 
City  of  Mexico.  His  favorite  recreations  are  horseback  riding, 
golf  and  tennis.  He  writes  that  his  aim  in  life  is  "to  continue  in 
the  practice  of  law,  striving  to  be  a  respectable  citizen  and  endeav- 
oring to  keep  an  even  balance  in  this  iconoclastic  age." 

He  married  on  October  8,  1895,  Mary  Hurd,  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Susan  M.  (Hurd)  Holbrook,  of  San  Francisco. 


Yan  Phou  Lee 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Lee  &  Company,  229  Park  Row,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Wood  Ridge,  N.  J. 

Yan  Phou  Lee  was  born  at  Fragrant  Hills,  China,  in  1861.  In 
1873  he  was  sent  to  the  United  States  by  the  Chinese  Government 
to  be  educated.  He  studied  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  and  at  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and  entered  Yale  in  the 
Class  of  '84.  A  year  later  he  was  recalled  to  China,  but  subse- 


BIOGRAPHIES 


YAX  PHOU  LEE 


quently  made  his  escape,  and,  returning  to  New  Haven,  joined  '87 
at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year.  In  college  he  received  a  first 
prize  for  English  composition  in  the  first  term  and  a  third  prize 
in  the  second  term,  a  Junior  Exhibition  prize,  a  second  prize  for 
declamation,  high  oration  appointments  in  both  Junior  and  Senior 
years,  took  one-year  honors  in  political  science,  history  and  law 
and  in  English,  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Pundit  Club. 

He  spent  one  year  in  graduate  study  at  Yale,  and  then  removed 
to  San  Francisco,  where,  for  a  time,  he  was  connected  with  the 
Pacific  Bank.  From  1890  to  1900  he  was  in  many  different  parts 
of  the  South  and  West,  and  engaged  in  many  different  occupations. 
He  kept  a  country  store;  he  studied  medicine  in  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity; he  was  connected  with  the  Chicago,  Atlanta  and  Nash- 
ville Expositions  and  the  Export  Exposition  at  Philadelphia;  he 
lectured  extensively,  and  wrote  much  for  the  press;  he  also  inter- 
preted in  courts  in  New  York.  He  then  for  some  years  conducted 
a  truck  farm  at  Lincoln,  Del.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  firm  of 


GRADUATES  297 


Lee  &  Company,  merchants,  at  229  Park  Row,  New  York  City. 
He  resides  at  Wood  Ridge,  N.  J.,  where  in  addition  to  his  mercan- 
tile business,  he  is  editor  of  a  local  newspaper. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church. 

He  has  been  twice  married.  First,  July  6,  1887,  to  Elizabeth 
Maud  Jerome,  of  New  Haven,  from  whom  he  was  divorced  in 
1890.  They  had  two  children: 

Jennie  Gilbert  Jerome,  born  May  15,  1888,  at  New  Haven.  She 
is  a  graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke  College  in  the  Class  of  1911. 

Gilbert  Nelson  Jerome,  Yale  '10  S.,  born  November  13,  1889, 
at  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  a  second  time,  November  3,  1897,  at  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  to  Sophie  Florence,  daughter  of  Frank  and  Sophie  Bieler 
Bolles.  They  have  two  children: 

Clarence  Vaille,  born  July  29,  1898,  at  Minster,  Ohio. 

Louis  Emerson,  born  June  19,  1903,  at  Lincoln,  Del. 


Alfred  Leeds 

General  Manager  of  the  American  Writing  Paper  Company,  Holyoke, 

Mass. 

Residence,  27  Ridgewood  Terrace,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Alfred  Leeds  is  a  son  of  Charles  Henry  and  Sarah  Perley  (Lam- 
bert) Leeds,  who  were  married  December  21,  1865,  and  had  six 
other  children:  Edward  Lambert,  '88  S.,  Norman,  '95  S.,  Arthur 
Russell,  '00  S.,  Ellen,  Mary  Warren  (Mrs.  Henry  F.  Devens)  and 
Howard  (died  August  10,  1882).  Charles  H.  Leeds,  born  January 
9,  1834,  in  New  York  City,  was  of  English  descent,  his  ancestors 
having  settled  in  Dorchester,  1634.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  in 
the  Class  of  1854  and  was  the  first  mayor  of  Stamford.  Our  class- 
mate's mother  was  the  sister  of  Dr.  Edward  W.  Lambert,  Yale 
'54,  and  Dr.  Alfred  Lambert,  Yale  '43.  She  was  born  in  Boston, 
May  20,  1834,  and  was  descended  from  an  English  family  who 
settled  in  Rowley,  Mass.,  in  1639.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leeds  died  at 
Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  November  6,  1914,  within  a  few  hours  of  each 
other. 

Leeds  was  born  in  New  York  City,  October  20,  1867,  and  is  con- 


298 


BIOGRAPHIES 


ALFRED   LEEDS 


sequently  the  youngest  man  in  the  Class.  His  boyhood  was  spent 
in  New  York  City  and  he  was  prepared  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic. 
In  college  he  received  a  second  colloquy  in  Junior  year.,  was  treas- 
urer of  the  Yale  University  Baseball  Club,  and  a  member  of  the 
University  Track  Team  in  1885  and  1886,  and  Senior  Prom  Com- 
mittee, Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head. 

Since  graduation  he  has  lived  in  Springfield,  and  is  manager 
of  the  American  Writing  Paper  Company,  of  Holyoke.  He  is  also 
president  of  the  Worthy  Hotel  Company  and  director  of  the  United 
Electric  Company,  the  Bircham  Bend  Power  Company  and  the 
Indian  Orchard  Company. 

He  is  a  staunch  Republican  and  attends  the  Congregational 
church.  He  is  on  the  board  of  managers  and  a  former  president  of 
the  Springfield  Country  Club,  a  vice-president  of  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  Western  Massachusetts,  a  member  of  the  Nayasset 
Club  of  Springfield,  and  the  Holyoke  Club.  He  is  interested  in 
golf  and  other  amateur  sports. 


GRADUATES  299 


He  was  married  October  24,  1894,  to  Louise  Chapin,  daughter 
of  Elisha  and  Sarah  (Grant)  Morgan  of  Springfield,  and  sister  of 
Daniel  H.  Morgan,  Yale  '03.  They  have  three  children: 

Sally,  born  December  9,  1896,  in  Springfield. 

Mary,  born  May  19,  1898,  in  Springfield. 

Helen,  born  October  10,  1904,  in  Springfield. 


Frank  Dodge  Leffingwell 

Civil  Engineer,  460   Bloomneld   Avenue,  Montclair,   N.   J. 
Residence,  716  Valley  Road,  Upper  Montclair,  N.  J. 

Frank  D.  Leffingwell  is  a  son  of  Henry  and  Caira  (Dodge) 
Leffingwell,  who  were  married  in  1861,  and  had  one  other  child, 
Lucia  Dodge,  Wellesley  '89.  Henry  Leffingwell  was  born  in  Ells- 
worth, Ohio,  September  21,  1824,  and  died  in  Montclair,  N.  J., 
February  9,  1902.  He  was  the  son  of  Lucius,  Yale  1814,  and 
grandson  of  William  Leffingwell,  Yale  1786.  William  Leffingwell, 
the  second  son  of  Colonel  Christopher  Leffingwell,  one  of  the  most 
prominent  citizens  of  Norwich,  Conn.,  and  grandson  of  Benajah 
and  Joanna  (Christophers)  Leffingwell,  of  Norwich,  was  born  on 
September  28,  1765.  He  was  married  on  September  12,  1786,  to 
Sally  Maria,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Mary  (Mansfield)  Beers,  of 
New  Haven.  He  was  first  engaged  in  a  mercantile  business  with  his 
father  in  Norwich,  but  in  1793  he  removed  to  New  York  City,  where 
he  first  went  into  business  as  a  shipping  merchant  and  later  as  a 
stock  and  insurance  broker.  He  thus  amassed  a  considerable 
fortune  and  when  he  retired  to  New  Haven  in  1809,  he  was 
accounted  the  richest  citizen  of  the  place.  He  took  a  deep  interest 
in  the  College,  and  contributed  liberally  at  various  times  to  its 
funds.  Of  his  five  sons,  two  died  in  infancy,  and  the  others  were 
graduates  of  Yale,  in  1807,  1814,  and  1822  respectively.  The 
older  of  his  two  daughters  married  Augustus  R.  Street,  Yale  1812, 
whom  she  joined  in  munificent  benefactions  to  the  College.  Many 
of  his  manuscript  letters  to  the  Hon.  David  Daggett,  Yale  1783, 
are  in  the  possession  of  the  University  Library,  and  portraits  of 
himself  and  his  wife  are  in  the  Yale  Art  School.  Our  classmate's 


800 


BIOGRAPHIES 


FRAKK  DODGE  LEFFISTGWELL 


mother,,  Caira  (Dodge)  Leffingwell,  was  born  in  Montpelier,  Vt., 
July  11,  1834,  and  died  in  Montclair,  N.  J.,  January  19,  1912. 

Leffingwell  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Calif.,  November  5, 
1862.  His  boyhood  was  spent  in  Montclair,  N.  J.,  and  he  was 
prepared  in  the  high  school  of  that  place.  In  college  he  received 
a  dissertation  appointment  in  Junior  year,  an  oration  and  a  second 
prize  in  mathematics  in  Senior  year,  and  two-year  honors  in  nat- 
ural and  physical  science.  He  has  been  engaged,  since  graduation, 
in  municipal  and  railway  engineering,  with  the  exception  of  one 
year  spent  in  Sheff.  From  1903  to  1907  he  was  in  charge  of 
portions  of  the  Brooklyn  extension  of  the  subway,  including  the 
tunnels  under  the  East  River. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church,  the  American 
Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  the  Montclair  Civic  Association,  the 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  the  Elks,  and  the  Royal  Arcanum.  He 
is  interested  in  photography. 

He  was  married  June  11,  1894,  to  Helen  Habberton,  daughter 


GRADUATES  301 


of  Joseph  and  Esther  (Habberton)   Trippett,  of  Montclair,  N.  J. 
They  have  four  children: 

Ethel  Trippett,  born  July  20,  1895. 

Helen  Trippett,  born  November  6,  1897. 

Henry  Dodge,  born  February  22,  1901. 

Elizabeth  Habberton,  born  April  2,  1906. 


John  Leverett,  M.D. 

Physician,  Albemarle  Place,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

John  Leverett  is  a  son  of  Josiah  Salisbury  and  Annie  Matilda 
(Lockwood)  Leverett,  who  were  married  in  1865,  and  had  four 
other  children:  Theodore  Lockwood,  Yale  '88,  Union  Theological 
'92,  William  Josiah,  Yale  '91,  Auburn  Theological  '94,  Annie  M. 
(died  March  26,  1903),  and  Mary  E.  Leverett,  Vassar  '97.  Josiah 
Salisbury  Leverett,  born  in  Windsor,  Vt.,  in  1812,  and  died  in 
Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  January  1,  1899,  was  a  merchant.  He  was 
descended  from  Thomas  Leverett,  who  came  from  Lincolnshire, 
England,  in  1633,  and  settled  in  Boston,  Mass.  Annie  Matilda 
(Lockwood)  Leverett  was  born  in  Binghamton,  October  1,  1837, 
and  died  there  March  31,  1909.  She  was  the  granddaughter  of 
Rev.  Peter  Lockwood,  Yale  1817,  and  great-granddaughter  of 
John  Davenport,  Yale  1770. 

Leverett  was  born  in  New  York  City,  March  4,  1866.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  New  York  City,  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  and  East- 
hampton,  Mass.,  and  he  was  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary.  In 
college  he  received  a  second  dispute  appointment  in  Junior  year, 
a  first  dispute  in  Senior  year  and  two-year  honors  in  natural  and 
physical  science.  In  Junior  year  he  won  the  first  prize  for  light- 
weight sparring  and  was  a  member  of  the  University  Lacrosse  Team 
in  1885. 

After  teaching  one  year  at  Easton,  Conn.,  he  studied  medicine 
at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Columbia  University, 
New  York  City,  graduating  in  1891.  He  practiced  medicine  first  at 
East  Hartford,  Conn.,  from  1892  to  1901,  at  Binghamton,  N.  Y., 
and  then  for  two  years  at  Holland  Patent,  N.  Y.  In  February, 
1903,  he  removed  to  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  where  he  is  still  practicing. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


JOHN   LEVERETT 


For  some  time  he  was  advertising  manager  for  the  Denver  Chemical 
Manufacturing  Company,  of  57  Laight  Street,  New  York  City,  but 
he  resigned  from  that  position  in  June,  1913,  and  is  devoting  his 
entire  time  to  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Yonkers.  He  is  one  of 
the  regularly  appointed  physicians  in  attendance  on  the  Sherman 
Memorial  Dispensary  of  St.  John's  Hospital,  Yonkers. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  but  he  generally  votes  a  split 
ticket.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Park  Hill  Reformed  Church  of 
Yonkers,  but  on  account  of  propinquity  attends  the  Memorial 
Methodist  Church  at  Nepperhan  Heights,  where  he  has  a  class  of 
boys  in  Sunday  school  and  is  Merlin  of  the  Knights  of  the  Holy 
Grail  (a  boys'  organization).  He  is  a  member  of  the  Bryn  Mawr 
Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  the  Westchester  County  Yale 
Alumni  Association,  the  Practitioners'  Club  of  Yonkers,  the  West- 
Chester  County  and  New  York  State  Medical  societies. 

He  was  married  June  25,  1896,  to  Maude  Arvilla,  daughter  of 
Henrietta  M.  and  the  late  Charles  B.  Maccabe,  of  New  York  City. 


GRADUATES  SOS 


Prior  to  her  marriage  she  was   secretary  of  the  Y.  W.   C.   A.   in 
Binghamton,   N.   Y.      She   is   a   graduate   of   the   New   York   City 
Normal   College  and  was   also  assistant   secretary  of  the   Harlem 
Y.  W.  C.  A.,  New  York  City.     They  have  one  child: 
John  M.,  born  October  21,  1897. 

Robert  Hart  Lewis 

Bookman  in  charge  of  the  Rorer  Book  Store,  171  Orange  Street, 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

Residence,  193  Bassett  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Robert  H.  Lewis  is  a  son  of  John  Gardiner  and  Jane  Abigail 
(Hart)  Lewis,,  who  were  married  December  25,  I860,  and  had  seven 
other  children:  Carll  Andrews, 
Yale  '83,  Mary  Mumford  (died 
in  1884),  Harry  Blakeman, 
Yale  '93  S.,  John  Gardiner,  Jr., 
and  Sarah  Mumford,  who  both 
died  in  early  childhood,  Dwight 
Milton,  Yale  '97,  M.D.  Johns 
Hopkins  '01,  now  clinical  in- 
structor in  Yale  School  of  Medi- 
cine, and  Newton  Francis,  ex- 
'98  S.  John  Gardiner  Lewis  was 
born  in  Hopkinton,  R.  I.,  March 
19,  1834,  of  English  descent. 
He  is  a  graduate  of  the  New 
Britain  State  Normal  School  and 
for  fifty  years  taught  school  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  as  principal 
of  the  Webster  School.  Jane 
Abigail  Hart  was  born  in  New 

Britain,  Conn.,  June  2,  1837,  and  RQBERT  HART 

died   in    New   Haven,    Conn.,   in 
March,  1909.     She  was  of  Puri- 
tan ancestry,  being  lineally  descended  from  Stephen  Hart,  the  first 
settler  of  Farmington,  Conn.     Mrs.  Lewis  was  also  a  graduate  of 
the  New  Britain  Normal  School  and  taught  in  New  Britain. 


804  BIOGRAPHIES 


Lewis  was  born  in  New  Haven,  December  1,  1864,  and  as  a  boy 
lived  there,  attending  Webster  School.  He  was  prepared  at  the 
Hillhouse  High  School  and  in  college  received  a  dissertation 
appointment  in  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

The  first  three  years  after  graduation  he  taught  school  at  Guil- 
ford  Academy,  Conn.,  Fort  Dodge  High  School,  Iowa,  and  Harris- 
burg  Academy,  Pa.  Since  then  he  has  been  in  the  book  business; 
from  1890  to  1900  as  secretary,  assistant  treasurer  and  manager  of 
the  Edward  P.  Judd  Company  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  then  as  book 
salesman  in  the  retail  department  of  the  Little,  Brown  Company, 
of  Boston,  Mass.  In  1901  he  bought  out  the  stand  of  T.  H. 
Pease  &  Company,  of  New  Haven,  and  formed  the  Pease-Lewis 
Company.  In  November,  1909,  the  newspaper  and  magazine  part 
of  the  business  was  sold  to  the  New  Haven  News  Company.  From 
then  until  June,  1912,  he  was  book  salesman  for  the  Bookhunters 
Shop  (William  C.  Edwards)  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.  Since  then  he 
has  been  the  special  order  clerk  in  the  book  department  of  the 
Harvard  Cooperative  Society,  but  now  is  once  more  in  his  home 
city,  being  in  charge  of  the  Rorer  Book  Store. 

A  Congregationalist  as  to  creed  and  a  Republican  as  to  politics, 
but  not  a  partisan  in  either  case.  Walking  and  gardening  are  his 
favorite  pastimes. 

Lewis  was  married  July  30,  1903,  in  New  Haven,  to  Caroline 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Captain  William  Henry  and  Ellen  (Nilan) 
Merrow. 


Charles  Henry  Ludington 

Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Director  of  the  Curtis  Publishing  Company, 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Residence,  Ardmore,  Pa. 

Charles  H.  Ludington  is  a  son  of  Charles  Henry  and  Josephine 
Lord  (Noyes)  Ludington,  who  were  married  August  1,  1860,  and 
had  six  other  children:  Mary  L.,  William  Howard,  Yale  '87,  James 
Elliott  (died  March  7,  1870),  Katharine,  Arthur  Crosby,  Yale  '02 
(died  November  4,  1914,  in  London,  England),  and  Helen  Oilman. 


GRADUATES 


305 


CHARLES    HEXRY   LUDIXGTON 


Charles  Henry  Ludington,  Sr.,  was  born  in  Carmel,  N.  Y.,  Febru- 
ary 1,  1825,  and  died  in  New  York  City,,  January  1,  1910.  He 
was  the  son  of  Lewis  and  Polly  (Townsend)  Ludington,  whose 
father,  Colonel  Henry  Ludington,  was  the  great-great-grandson  of 
William  Ludington,  who  was  born  in  England  in  1608,  and  came 
to  America  with  his  wife  about  1639,  settling  first  in  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  and  later  moving  to  East  Haven,  Conn.  Colonel  Henry 
Ludington,  about  1761  or  1762,  moved  with  his  family  over  to 
Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  and  settled  at  Fredericktown  in  that  part 
of  the  county  which  afterwards  became  Putnam  County.  He 
fought  in  the  French  and  Indian  War,  in  a  Connecticut  regiment, 
and  later  in  the  Revolution,  taking  part  especially  in  the  cam- 
paigns in  Westchester  and  Dutchess  counties. 

The  father  of  our  classmate  went  to  New  York  City  in  1842, 
and  after  some  years  formed  a  partnership  with  several  other 
young  men  in  a  firm  which  later,  as  Lathrop,  Ludington  &  Com- 


306  BIOGRAPHIES 


pany,  became  one  of  the  largest  wholesale  dry-goods  firms  in  the 
city.  He  retired  in  1868,  but  for  many  years  was  interested  in 
various  personal  enterprises  in  New  York  and  in  the  West.  Jose- 
phine Lord  Noyes  was  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Rogers  and  Phoebe 
Griffin  (Lord)  Noyes,  of  Westerly,  R.  I.,  and  later  of  Old  Lyme, 
Conn.  Her  great-great-grandfather  was  the  Rev.  James  Noyes, 
a  graduate  of  Harvard  College,  for  fifty-five  years  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Stonington,  Conn.,  and  one  of  the 
founders  and  first  trustees  of  Yale  College.  He  was  the  son  of 
Rev.  James  Noyes,  of  Cholderton,  England,  who  came  to  America 
in  1634  with  a  colony  from  Wiltshire  and  settled  near  Ipswich, 
founding  the  town  of  Newbury.  Many  of  his  descendants  are 
graduates  of  Yale:  Winthrop  S.  G.  Noyes,  '91,  Charles  N.  Love- 
land,  '94,  Charles  R.  Noyes,  '05,  D.  Raymond  Noyes,  '05,  and 
Robert  H.  Noyes,  '08. 

Ludington  was  born  in  New  York  City,  August  9,  1866,  and  his 
boyhood  was  spent  in  the  city  of  his  birth.  He  was  prepared  at 
St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.  In  college  he  received  a  second 
prize  in  Sophomore  English  composition,  a  Junior  oration  and  a 
first  dispute  Senior  appointment,  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Literary 
Magazine,  was  on  the  Yale  Intercollegiate  Tennis  Team  and  was  a 
member  of  the  University  Club,  Chi  Delta  Theta,  Gammu  Nu,  He 
Boule,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

After  graduation  he  studied  one  year  at  New  Haven  in  the 
postgraduate  department  in  history  and  political  science,  and  the 
next  year  in  the  Yale  Law  School.  In  1889  he  received  the  degree 
of  M.A.  from  Yale.  He  then  entered  the  law  office  of  Anderson  & 
Howland,  where  he  stayed  for  a  year  and  a  half,  after  which  time 
he  went  with  the  firm  of  Gary  &  Whitridge,  59  Wall  Street.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  State  in  1891.  He  practiced 
law  in  New  York  until  May,  1901,  and  was  also  an  officer  in  several 
corporations,  and  secretary  of  an  English  investment  company. 
In  1901  he  moved  to  Philadelphia  to  become  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Curtis  Publishing  Company,  residing  first  at  Bryn  Mawr 
and  later  at  Ardmore.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  American 
Utilities  Company  and  of  the  Public  Ledger  Company,  of  Phila- 
delphia, and  vice-president  of  the  Octavia  Hill  Association  of  that 
city. 


GRADUATES  307 


In  politics  he  is  an  Independent  Republican  and  is  a  trustee  and 
treasurer  of  the  Bryn  Mawr  Presbyterian  Church.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  or  a  contributor  to  a  considerable  number  of  philanthropic 
and  reform  organizations.  He  belongs  to  the  University  Club  of 
New  York,  the  Racquet  and  Down  Town  clubs,  of  Philadelphia, 
the  Merion  Cricket  Club,  of  Haverford,  Pa.,  and  the  Bryn  Mawr 
Polo  Club.  His  recreations  are  tennis,  motoring  and  travel. 

He  was  married  April  24,  1895,  to  Ethel  Mildred,  daughter  of 
Nicholas  and  Maria  Seymour  (Sanford)  Saltus,  of  New  York, 
and  granddaughter  of  Rollin  Sanford,  Yale  '31.  She  attended 
Miss  Porter's  School  at  Farmington,  Conn.  They  have  three  sons: 

Charles  Townsend,  born  January  16,  1896,  in  New  York  City. 
He  attended  the  Adirondack-Florida  School  and  is  at  present  pre- 
paring for  Yale  at  the  Haverford  School. 

Wright  Saltus,  born  June  20,  1900,  in  New  York  City.  He  is  at 
present  attending  the  Groton  School,  Groton,  Mass. 

Nicholas  Saltus,  born  November  13,  1904,  in  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 
He  is  also  attending  the  Haverford  School. 


William  Howard  Ludington 

Retired 
Residence,  424  St.  Ronan  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

William  H.  Ludington,  the  son  of  Charles  Henry  and  Josephine 
Lord  (Noyes)  Ludington  and  brother  of  Charles  Henry  Luding- 
ton, Jr.,  '87,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  September  24,  1864,  and 
has  always  resided  there.  The  family  history  is  given  in  the  pre- 
ceding biography.  He  was  prepared  at  the  Everson  School,  New 
York  City,  and  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.  He  was 
for  a  time  in  the  Class  of  '86,  but  became  a  member  of  our  Class  in 
Junior  year,  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Track  Team,  the  Senior 
Prom  Committee,  the  University  Club  and  Wolf's  Head. 

Until  1904  he  was  in  business  in  New  York,  being  successively 
in  the  employ  of  the  American  Surety  Company,  treasurer  of  the 
American  Drier  Company,  in  the  electrical  department  of  the 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


WILLIAM  HOWARD  LUDIXGTON 


H.  W.  Johns  Manufacturing  Company,  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Croscup  &  Sterling  Company  and  treasurer  of  the  Gillis  Press. 
Since  1904  he  has  been  looking  after  various  personal  and  family 
interests.  From  1889  to  1897  he  served  as  a  member  of  Troop  A, 
later  Squadron  A,  National  Guard,  New  York,  from  which  organi- 
zation he  retired  with  rank  of  sergeant. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Madison  Square  Presbyterian  Church, 
New  York  City,  and  in  politics  is  an  Independent  Republican.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Yale  Club  of  New  York  and  the  New  Haven 
Country  Club,  and  still  takes  his  recreation  in  a  little  tennis  and 
some  golf. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  June  1,  1910,  to  Mildred  Corne- 
lia, daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Cornelia  Maria  (Hoadley) 
Wilson.  She  is  a  graduate  of  Ogontz  (Pa.)  School.  They  have 
one  child: 

William  Howard,  Jr.,  born  July  22,  1912,  at  New  Haven,  Conn. 


GRADUATES  309 


Henry  Lyne 

Business  Manager,  Colorado  Department,  American   Smelting  &  Refining 
Company,  Room  813,  First  National  Bank  Building,  Denver,  Colo. 

Residence,  728  Clarkson  Street,  Denver,  Colo. 

Henry  Lyne  is  a  son  of  John  Philip  and  Mary  (Brickman)  Lyne, 
who  were  married  in  1855.  John  Philip  Lyne  was  of  Scotch 
ancestry,,  his  father  having  been  born  in  Scotland  and  having 
settled  in  Philadelphia  about  the  year  1780.  His  mother  was 
American  born.  He  was  married  once  previously  and  had  five 
sons  and  one  daughter,  all  of  whom  are  now  dead.  He  was  a 
merchant  under  the  firm  name  of  John  P.  Lyne,  and  died  in  Car- 
lisle, Pa.,  August  6,  1862.  Mary  Brickman  was  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, and  died  in  Augusta,  111.,  February  12,  1873.  Her  father 
was  born  in  Germany,  but  her  mother  was  American  born,  of 
colonial  ancestry. 

Lyne  was  born  in  Carlisle,  Pa.,  July  11,  1856,  and  was  pre- 
pared by  private  tutoring.  He  entered  with  the  Class  of  '79, 
in  which  class  he  ranked  among  the  first  four  or  five,  but  he  was 
obliged  to  leave  college  at  the  end  of  his  Junior  year  on  account 
of  ill  health.  He  received  a  first  mathematical  prize  in  his  Sopho- 
more year  (1876-77),  and  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  (1875- 
76)  and  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  (1877-78).  Upon  regaining  his 
health  in  1879,  he  taught  school  in  several  places  in  Illinois, 
including  Augusta,  in  which  place  he  remained  until  the  fall  of 
1886,  when  he  returned  to  Yale  and  completed  his  Senior  year 
in  the  Class  of  '87.  In  that  year  he  received  a  first  prize  in  mathe- 
matics and  a  philosophical  oration  appointment,  and  was  elected 
to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

In  August,  1887,  he  went  to  Colorado  and  in  November  of  that 
year,  took  a  position  as  chemist  with  the  Holden  Smelting  Com- 
pany in  Denver.  In  1888  he  became  the  ore  buyer  for  this  com- 
pany, and  in  1895  manager  of  the  ore  buying  department  of  the 
Globe  Smelting  &  Refining  Company.  In  April,  1899,  the  Globe 
sold  out  to  the  American  Smelting  &  Refining  Company,  and  he 
became  secretary  of  the  ore  purchasing  committee.  In  1901  he 


310 


BIOGRAPHIES 


was  secretary  of  the  Western  Executive  Committee  of  said  com- 
pany, in  1902  was  made  general  ore  purchasing  and  freight  agent 
for  Colorado,  and  in  1913  was  appointed  business  manager  for  the 
Colorado  department.  From  December,,  1888,  to  March,  1895,  he 
spent  most  of  his  time  traveling  through  the  mountain  states  buying 
ores,  but  maintained  his  home  in  Denver.  He  is  a  director  of  the 
American  Live  Stock  &  Loan  Company. 

On  February  5,   1913,  he  wrote  the  Secretary: 

"As  to  myself,  I  have  lived  in  Denver,  or  at  least  have  had  my 
headquarters  here,  ever  since  November,  1887.  It  is  a  pleasant 
town,  although  it  has  more  cranks  and  half-baked  reformers  to  the 
square  yard  than  any  other  town  in  the  country.  If  we  could  get 
rid  of  a  few  of  these,  life  would  be  well  worth  living.  However, 
I  have  become  accustomed  to  things  as  they  are,  and  do  not  take 
them  too  seriously.  We  have  a  delightful  climate  and  a  lot  of 
very  pleasant  people,  and  I  like  my  work.  We  have  four  smelting 
plants  in  operation  in  the  state,  and  it  is  my  business  to  supply 


GRADUATES  311 


these  plants  with  ore,  coal,  coke  and  limestone,  look  after  their 
freight  business,  etc.  As  they  require  nearly  90,000  tons  monthly 
of  the  various  materials  mentioned,  I  have  enough  to  keep  me  out 
of  mischief. 

"I  am  a  conservative  Republican,  have  some  progressive  opinions, 
but  am  opposed  to  the  unlimited  initiative  and  to  the  recall  as 
applied  to  judges  and  judicial  decisions.  Colorado  is  one  of  the 
most  radical  of  the  progressive  states,  and  is  going  ahead  on  the 
principle  that  there  is  an  immediate  necessity  for  legislation  upon 
all  subjects.  The  result  is  a  mass  of  undigested  and  meaningless 
laws,  which  produce  nothing  but  litigation.  This  sort  of  thing 
does  not  appeal  to  me,  and  I  am  consequently  a  good  deal  of  a 
reactionary.  I  think  that  the  old  boss  system  is  better  than  no 
system. 

"As  to  religious  matters,  my  beliefs  are  not  very  orthodox,  but 
are  reasonably  clear.  Possibly  they  resemble  those  of  the  majority 
of  the  Class  who  are  not  church  people. 

"I  am  not  particularly  ambitious,  but  try  to  do  my  work  as 
well  as  possible,  and  to  get  a  reasonable  amount  of  comfort  and 
enjoyment  out  of  life.  I  have  no  intention  of  changing  my  line  of 
work,  and  have  about  reached  the  limit  of  promotion,  as  far  as  the 
Colorado  department  is  concerned.  I  am  very  much  interested  in 
social  development  throughout  the  world,  and  my  reading  is  largely 
along  these  lines.  I  do  not  get  many  vacations,  but  when  I  have 
accumulated  sufficient  credit,  I  take  a  trip  to  Europe.  Am  due  for 
another  one  in  two  or  three  years,  and  hope  to  get  it. 

"This  is  about  all  I  have  to  say  about  myself.  In  general,  I  am 
well  contented  with  conditions;  too  much  so,  perhaps,  to  make  me 
very  energetic  to  effect  a  change." 

He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  Denver  and  the  Denver 
Country  Club. 

He  was  married  April  23,  1906,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  to  Eleanor, 
daughter  of  Colonel  James  Warden  Pope,  United  States  Army, 
retired  June  6,  1910,  and  Mary  (Lynch)  Pope.  She  was  born  at 
Fort  Leavenworth,  Kans.,  and  has  resided  at  various  army  posts  to 
which  her  father  was  ordered  from  time  to  time.  They  have  one 
child: 

Henry,  Jr.,  born  January  9,  1908,  at  Denver,  Colo. 


BIOGRAPHIES 


JAMES  McCoRMicx,  JR. 


James  McCormick,  Jr. 

Manager  of  the  McCormick  Estate,  Cameron  Building,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 
Residence,  101  North  Front  Street,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

James  McCormick,  Jr.,  is  a  son  of  James  and  Mary  Wilson 
(Alricks)  McCormick,  who  were  married  May  26,  1859,  and  had 
seven  other  children:  Henry,  Jr.,  Yale  '84,  William,  Yale  '87, 
Donald,  Yale  '90,  Robert,  Yale  '00,  Eliza,  Herman  (died  at  Har- 
risburg), and  Mary  (died  at  Harrisburg).  James  McCormick, 
Yale  '53,  M.A.  '56,  was  born  October  31,  1832,  at  Harrisburg,  Pa. 
He  is  a  son  of  James  and  Eliza  (Buehler)  McCormick  and  a 
brother  of  Henry  McCormick,  Yale  '52.  The  paternal  line  of  the 
family  is  descended  from  Thomas  McCormick,  who  came  to 
America  from  the  Province  of  Ulster,  Ireland,  in  1735.  Our  class- 
mate's father  is  a  lawyer  by  profession,  and  was  cashier  of  the 
Dauphin  Deposit  Bank  and  later  president  of  the  Dauphin  Deposit 
Trust  Company.  Mary  Wilson  (Alricks)  McCormick  was  born  at 


GRADUATES  313 


Harrisburg,  November  24,  1833,  and  died  at  that  place,  August 
6,  1891.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Hermanus  and  Mary  Elder 
(Kerr)  Alricks,  and  a  descendant  of  Pieter  Alricks,  who  came  to 
this  country  from  Holland  in  1658. 

McCormick  was  born  at  Harrisburg,  December  12,  1863.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  at  Harrisburg,  and  he  was  prepared  at  the 
Harrisburg  Academy.  In  college  he  was  president  of  the  Yale 
Orchestra  and  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon  and  the  University  Club. 

For  a  year  after  graduation  he  was  with  the  Dauphin  Deposit 
Bank,  after  which  he  was  for  several  years  secretary  of  the  Paxton 
&  Steelton  Flouring  Mills  Company.  He  has  since  managed  the 
McCormick  estate. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  in  politics  a 
Democrat. 

He  has  never  married. 


William  McCormick 

Owner  and  Editor  of  the  Reading  Herald,  13  North  Fifth  Street, 
Reading,  Pa. 

Residence,  524  Elm  Street,  Reading,  Pa. 

William  McCormick,  brother  of  James,  was  born  at  Harrisburg, 
Pa.,  April  24,  1866,  and  his  boyhood  was  spent  at  that  place.  He 
was  prepared  at  the  Harrisburg  Academy.  In  college  he  received 
a  second  colloquy  appointment  in  Junior  year,  was  Class  Poet,  an 
editor  of  the  Yale  Courant,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Yale 
Bicycle  Club,  and  a  member  of  Gamma  Nil,  Chi  Delta  Theta,  Psi 
Upsilon  and  Wolf's  Head. 

From  graduation  until  1890  he  worked  as  a  reporter  in  Boston, 
Philadelphia  and  New  York,  when  he  became  editor  of  the  Bethle- 
hem (Pa.)  Times,  where  he  remained  until  July,  1892.  He  was 
then  headmaster  of  the  Burnham  Industrial  School,  Canaan,  N.  Y., 
for  one  year.  From  1893  to  1896  he  was  editor  of  the  Daily 
Leader,  of  Allentown,  Pa.,  which  paper  he  founded.  Since  1896 
he  has  been  editor  and  owner  of  the  Reading  Daily  Herald. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Progressive  Democrat,  and  his   chief  public 


314 


BIOGRAPHIES 


WILLIAM  McCoRMiCK 


interest  is  in  municipal  reform.  He  is  a  promoter  of  boys'  clubs, 
playgrounds,  vacant  lot  gardens,  etc.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  and  has  given  much  of  his  time  to  social  and 
educational  work  among  the  working  classes.  He  has  organized 
and  financed  boys'  and  young  men's  clubs,  has  built  a  gymnasium 
and  settlement  house,  has  equipped  a  playground  and  teaches  a 
Sunday  school  class  of  over  one  hundred  young  working  men.  He 
is  on  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Federation  of  Boys'  Clubs.  His 
favorite  sports  are  bicycling  and  sleeping. 

His  book,  "The  Boy  and  his  Clubs,"  was  published  by  the 
Fleming  Revell  Company  in  1912.  The  greater  part  of  his  writ- 
ings has  been  editorials  in  the  different  papers  with  which  he  has 
been  connected,  but  he  has  written  occasional  magazine  articles. 
He  is  editor  and  owner  of  a  monthly  magazine  called  Work  with 
Boys. 

He  has  never  married. 


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315 


Robert  Maxwell 

Vice-President  and  Director  of  the  Hockanum  Mills  Company,  334  Fourth 
Avenue,  New  York  City 

Residence,  524  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Robert  Maxwell  is  a  son  of  George  and  Harriet  (Kellogg) 
Maxwell,  who  were  married  March  3,  1846,  and  had  three  other 
children:  Francis  Furber,  Julia  Alice  and  William,  Yale  '85. 
George  Maxwell  was  born  in  Charlemont,  Mass.,  July  30,  1817, 
and  died  in  Rockville,  Conn.,  April  2,  1891.  He  was  the  son  of 
Sylvester  Maxwell,  Yale  1797,  and  the  grandson  of  Hugh  Max- 
well, who  came  to  this  country  in  1735  and  was  a  lieutenant-colonel 
in  the  Revolutionary  Army.  He  was  a  woolen  and  worsted  manu- 
facturer and  held  numerous  political  positions,  among  them,  state 
representative  and  senator.  Harriet  (Kellogg)  Maxwell  was  born 
in  Rockville,  Conn.,  May  2,  1824,  and  died  in  that  place  January 


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ROBERT   MAXWELL 


316  BIOGRAPHIES 


24,  1913.  She  was  of  English  descent,,  her  ancestors  having  settled 
in  this  country  about  1660. 

Maxwell  was  born  at  Rockville,  Conn.,  September  20,  1864.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  the  place  of  his  birth  and  he  was  prepared 
in  its  high  school.  In  college  he  received  first  colloquy  appoint- 
ments in  Junior  and  Senior  years,  was  on  the  Class  Day  Committee, 
was  an  editor  of  the  Yale  News,  and  a  member  of  the  Pundit  and 
University  clubs,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Wolf's  Head. 

In  the  summer  of  1887  he  visited  Billy  Kent's  ranch  in  Nebraska 
and  later  in  the  same  year  visited  Yellowstone  Park,  Alaska,  Cali- 
fornia, Washington  and  Oregon.  During  the  years  1888,  1889 
and  early  1890  he  lived  on  a  ranch  in  North  Dakota,  spending  a 
portion  of  his  time  in  Duluth,  Minn.,  Negaunee  and  Marquette, 
Mich.,  and  Milwaukee,  Wis.  Since  the  late  spring  of  1890,  he  has 
lived  in  New  York  City,  retaining  a  residence  in  Rockville,  Conn. 
He  is  vice-president  and  director  of  the  Hockanum  Mills  Company, 
woolen  and  worsted  manufacturers,  and  represents  that  company 
in  New  York.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Aeolian  Weber  Piano  & 
Pianola  Company. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  Congregational  Church  of  Rockville, 
Conn.,  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
University,  Union  League,  Yale  and  Republican  clubs  of  New 
York,  and  the  Graduates  Club  of  New  Haven.  He  has  made  three 
trips  abroad,  visiting  Egypt,  Turkey,  Algeria  and  Morocco. 

He  has  never  married. 


*Henry  Lawton  May 

Died  October  23,  1898 

Henry  L.  May,  only  child  of  Joel  H.  and  Mary  B.  (Holland) 
May,  was  born  in  North  Brookfield,  Mass.,  December  26,  1862, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Gushing  Academy,  Ashburnham, 
Mass. 

He  was  connected  with  the  Springfield  (Mass.)  Union  for  some 
two  years  after  graduation,  and  later  was  employed  on  other  news- 
papers, especially  the  Boston  Daily  Advertiser,  for  which  he  wrote 
editoriallv  on  financial  matters  from  1894  to  1898.  His  work  was 


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317 


repeatedly  interrupted  by  ill  health,  resulting  in  great  depression 
of  spirits.     While  mentally  unbalanced  from  this  cause,  he  took  his 
own  life,  at  Ashburnham,  Mass., 
on  October  23,  1898. 

He  married  in  April,  1890, 
Miss  Mabel  W.  Tenney,  of  Ash- 
burnham,  who  died  June  8,  1903, 
in  Medford,  Mass.  They  had 
two  sons  and  a  daughter: 

Philip  S.,  who  graduated  from 
Gushing  Academy  in  1911  and 
expects  to  enter  Dartmouth  in 
1915. 

Robert,  who  graduated  from 
the  Farm  and  Trades  School  in 
1911. 

Josephine,  who  is  attending 
the  Trades  School  in  Worcester, 
Mass. 

[For  further  biographical 
notice,  see  Quindecennial  Record, 
page  94.]  HEKRY  LAWTON  MAY 


*Franklin  Adams  Meacham,  M.D. 

Died  April  14,  1902 

Franklin  A.  Meacham  was  born  in  Cumberland  Gap,  Ky.,  Octo- 
ber 28,  1862,  the  son  of  Frank  Meacham,  M.D.,  surgeon  in  the 
United  States  Army  during  the  Civil  War,  and  Ellen  Bruce 
(Adams)  Meacham.  He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
received  a  second  colloquy  Junior  appointment  and  was  on  the 
Class  Supper  Committee. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  Medical  Department  of  the 
University  of  Virginia  and  completed  the  three  years'  course  in  one 
year,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  June,  1889.  He  then  settled 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  and  achieved  unusual  success  in  his  pro- 
fession. The  following  spring  he  was  elected  city  physician,  being 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


the  first  "Gentile"  ever  chosen  to  that  position,  and  in  June,  1892, 
became  a  member  of  the  Territorial  Board  of  Health.  In  1894-95 
he  took  an  advanced  course  of  study  in  bacteriology  and  surgical 

pathology  in  Johns  Hopkins 
Hospital.  He  was  for  a  time 
associate  surgeon  of  the  Holy 
Cross  Hospital  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  on  April  6,  1896,  was 
appointed  surgeon  of  the  same, 
and  also  president  of  the  Board 
of  United  States  Pension  Exam- 
ining Surgeons  of  Utah.  Shortly 
afterwards,  on  April  28,  1896, 
he  was  chosen  surgeon  of  the 
Utah  National  Guard,  with  the 
rank  of  major,  and  at  the  out- 
break of  the  Spanish  War  was 
placed  in  command  of  the  Hos- 
pital Corps  of  that  Guard. 

In  June,  1898,  he  was  ap- 
pointed senior  surgeon  of  the 
Second  Regiment,  U.  S.  Volun- 
teer Engineers,  with  the  rank  of 
major,  and  was  with  them 
through  unusual  exposure  and 

hardships.  He  served  at  Camp  Wikoff  and  in  Savannah,  went  to 
Havana,  November  19,  1898,  and  the  following  April  was  assigned 
to  duty  as  chief  operating  surgeon,  pathologist  and  bacteriologist  of 
the  Military  Hospital,  No.  1,  in  that  city.  He  was  then  ordered  to 
the  Philippines,  and  on  October  21,  1899,  was  appointed  brigade 
surgeon  in  General  MacArthur's  Division,  on  the  staff  of  General 
Joseph  Wheeler,  First  Brigade,  and  served  in  many  engagements  of 
the  brigade  during  its  advance  north  from  Angeles  to  Dagupan.  On 
April  15,  1900,  he  was  appointed  chief  surgeon,  Third  Military  Dis- 
trict, Department  of  Northern  Luzon,  with  headquarters  at  Dagu- 
pan, and  in  December,  was  assigned  to  the  duty  of  president  of  the 
Board  of  Health  of  Manila. 


FRANKLJK   ADAMS  MEACHAM 


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He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  the 
Rocky  Mountain  Interstate  Medical  Association  and  the  Utah  State 
Medical  Association;  and  in  1896-97  was  vice-president  of  the  Salt 
Lake  County  Medical  Society  and  of  the  Utah  Microscopical 
Society.  He  died  in  Manila,  on  April  14,  1902,  of  heart  failure 
caused  by  overwork  among  cholera  patients. 

He  married,  on  February  18,  1896,  Sarah  Grace  Thomson,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  W.  and  Anna  C.  Thomson,  of  New  York  City.  They 
had  twin  daughters. 

[The  Meacham  Memorial  Tablet,  the  tribute  of  his  classmates 
to  the  memory  of  one  who  had  given  his  life  to  his  country  and  to 
his  profession,  was  erected  in  Memorial  Hall  in  1904.  For  further 
biographical  notice,  see  Quindecennial  Record,  pages  94-97.] 


Joseph  Weed  Middlebrook 

Lawyer,  82   Beaver  Street,   New  York  City 
Residence,  Dobbs  Ferry,  N.  Y. 

Joseph  W.  Middlebrook  was  born  at  Wilton,  Conn.,  July  3, 
1865,  the  son  of  Samuel  Bradley  Middlebrook.  He  was  prepared 
at  the  Wilton  Academy. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York  in  1889  after  a  year 
and  a  half  at  the  Columbia  Law  School,  and  since  that  time  has 
been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

He  was  married  September  19,  1893,  to  Emma  Fitch,  daughter 
of  David  Ogden  Bradley,  of  Dobbs  Ferry,  N.  Y.  They  have  four 
children : 

Bradley,  born  September  8,  1894,  at  Dobbs  Ferry. 
Joseph,  born  December  6,  1895,  at  Dobbs  Ferry. 
Cornelia,  born  April  30,  1898,  at  Dobbs  Ferry. 
John,  born  April  1,  1904,  at  Dobbs  Ferry. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


JOSEPH  WEED  MIDDLEBROOK 


Clarence  Tomlinson  Morse 

Lawyer,  1538  Tribune  Building,  Chicago,  111. 
Residence,  517  Cherry  Street,  Winnetka,  111. 

Clarence  T.  Morse  is  a  son  of  Charles  Huntington  and  Laura 
(Compton)  Morse,  who  were  married  in  1856,  and  had  three  other 
children:  Evangeline  (Morse)  Knight,  Julia  (Morse)  Barry  and 
Lillian  (Morse)  Barry,  who  died  in  1894,  in  Florence,  Arizona. 
Charles  Huntington  Morse,  Yale  '39,  LL.B.  '41,  was  born  in 
New  Haven,  August  28,  1816,  and  died  in  Chicago,  July  3,  1897. 
He  was  the  son  of  Josiah  B.  Morse,  a  captain  in  the  War  of  1812, 
and  Nancy  (Tomlinson)  Morse,  and  seventh  in  descent  from  John 
Morse  (then  spelled  Moss),  a  charter  member  of  the  New  Haven 
Colony  and  later  one  of  the  commissioners  who  founded  Walling- 
ford,  Conn.  He  was  a  brother  of  George  Beale  Morse,  Yale  '37. 
Laura  (Compton)  Morse  was  born  in  Jackson,  Temu,  in  1839,  and 


GRADUATES 


321 


died  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  in  January,  1911.  She  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  Compton,  of  Tennessee,  and  was  of  English  descent. 
She  was  educated  at  Howard  College,  Alabama. 

Morse  was  born  in  Mobile, 
Ala.,  December  22,  1865.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Chicago 
and  he  was  prepared  at  the  West 
Division  High  School  of  that 
city.  In  college  he  received  a 
Berkeley  premium  for  Latin  com- 
position in  Freshman  year,  a 
third  prize  for  English  composi- 
tion in  Sophomore  year,  an  ora- 
tion appointment  in  Junior  year, 
an  oration  appointment  and 
honors  in  English  in  Senior  year. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man Nine,  of  the  Class  Nine, 
treasurer  of  the  Yale  Navy,  and 
a  member  of  He  Boule,  Psi 
Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

After  two  years'  travel  in  Eu- 
rope he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  Chicago  in  1889,  and  has  since 
been  practicing  law  in  that  city. 

He  resides  at  Winnetka,  111.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Riverside 
Fruit  Company,  and  of  the  United  Land  Sales  Company. 

He  is  treasurer  of  the  Union  Presbyterian  Church  of  Kenilworth, 
111.,  and  in  politics  is  a  Progressive.  He  was  trustee  of  the  New 
Trier  Township  High  School,  1900-09,  trustee  of  the  village  of 
Winnetka,  1911-13,  on  the  board  of  local  improvements  of  Win- 
netka, 1912-13.  He  is  a  Mason,  and  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Bar  Association,  the  Chicago  Law  Club,  the  University,  Yale  and 
City  clubs  of  Chicago  and  the  Winnetka  Tennis  Club.  He  was 
secretary  of  the  Yale  Club,  1894-98,  chairman  of  the  executive 
committee,  1899,  and  was  elected  vice-president  in  1905.  He  is 
interested  in  tennis,  golf,  hunting,  fishing  and  gardening,  and  has 
traveled  through  Europe  several  times. 


CLAREXCE   TOMLIXSON   MORSE 


822  BIOGRAPHIES 


He  was  married  in  Leipzig,  Germany,,  December  27,  1888,  to 
Elizabeth  Willis,  daughter  of  Henry  M.  and  Elizabeth  (Laughlin) 
Bailey,  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  They  had  two  sons: 

Huntington  Tomlinson,  Yale  '16,  born  October  15,  1889,  at 
Chicago. 

Henry  Bailey,  born  May  25,  1891,  at  Chicago. 

He  was  married  a  second  time,  at  Chicago,  September  14,  1907, 
to  Harriet  Sayrs  (McAuley)  Carpenter,  daughter  of  John  Towne 
and  Mary  Lockwood  (Sayrs)  McAuley.  She  is  a  sister  of  Henry 
Sayrs  McAuley,  Yale  '01,  and  a  descendant  of  Macaulay,  the 
historian. 

Richard  Dana  Morse 

Secretary  of  Liquidating  Trustees  of  the  Fidelity  Development  Company, 
25  Broad  Street,  New  York  City 

Residence,  Florham  Park,  N.  J. 

Richard  D.  Morse  is  a  son  of  Richard  Dana  and  Helen  Sophia 
(Hutchins)  Morse,  who  were  married  November  27,  1856,  and 
had  four  other  children:  Cora  St.  Clair  (died  in  October,  1860), 
Grace  Dana  (died  in  March,  1869),  Harry  Kirke  (died  in 
December,  1868)  and  Francis  Bowditch  Morse.  Richard  Dana 
Morse,  the  father,  was  born  March  2,  1823,  in  Woodstock,  Vt., 
and  died  September  23,  1895,  in  Boston,  Mass.  He  was  a  son  of 
Lewis  Richard  Morris  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Dana)  Morse,  and  a 
descendant  of  Anthony  Morse,  who  settled  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  in 
1835.  He  was  a  partner  in  Bazin,  Morse  &  Company,  book  pub- 
lishers in  Boston,  Mass.,  prior  to  1860,  and  then  took  up  farming. 
He  served  in  the  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Infantry,  1864-65. 
Helen  Sophia  (Hutchins)  Morse  was  born  July  25,  1833,  in 
Boston,  Mass.,  and  died  in  Medfield,  Mass.,  October  15,  1899. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Ezra  Child  and  Augusta  (St.  Clair) 
Hutchins. 

Morse  was  born  at  Newton,  Mass.,  March  16,  1864.  He  was 
prepared  at  the  academy  and  high  school  in  Framingham,  Mass. 
In  college  he  rowed  on  the  Freshman  Crew. 

He  sends  the  following  account  of  his  life  since  graduation: 

"As  soon  as  I  matriculated  at  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  the 


GRADUATES 


RICHARD  DANA  MORSE 


autumn  of  1887,  I  obtained  a  job  tutoring  some  boys  who  were 
preparing  for  college,  and  thus  was  enabled  to  keep  my  'head 
above  water'  until  I  could  get  some  returns  in  the  law  line.  I  got 
my  LL.B.  in  1889  and  arranged  with  John  E.  Parsons  for  a  desk 
and  chair  in  his  office.,  thus  being  enabled  to  pick  up  some  points 
of  practice  and  incidentally  a  little  business.  After  remaining 
there  for  about  a  year,  early  in  1891  I  concluded  to  go  it  alone 
but  soon  found  that  I  was  somewhat  premature  as  business  didn't 
materialize.  After  paying  office  rent  for  a  few  months,  I  accepted 
an  offer  from  Parrish  &  Pendleton,  of  which  Charles  S.  Foote,  '83, 
was  then  managing  clerk.  In  1894,  I  think  it  was,  I  decided  to 
hang  out  my  shingle  again.  I  found  conditions  fairly  favorable 
and  things  went  well  until  1902  when  business  generally  and  mine 
in  particular  began  to  grow  bad  rapidly  and  I  made  up  my  mind 
to  make  for  a  port.  I  secured  a  position  in  October  of  that  year 
in  the  law  department  of  the  Lawyers'  Title  Insurance  &  Trust 
Company,  where  I  found  Tracy  and  Penrose  already  on  the 


BIOGRAPHIES 


payroll.  I  then  came  to  the  conclusion  that  thereafter  I  wouldn't 
assume  the  obligations  incident  to  running  an  independent  office 
unless  the  inducements  were  very  seductive.  In  1906  I  resigned 
from  the  Title  Company  to  take  charge  of  the  mortgage  business 
of  Merrill  &  Rogers.  The  year  following  the  panic  came  on  and 
with  it  the  end  for  the  time  being  of  real  estate  loans.  It  was  at 
this  time  I  thought  seriously  of  going  out  to  the  northwestern 
Canada  wheat  country  in  a  proposition  being  engineered  by  some 
Amherst  men,  but  for  one  reason  and  another  I  abandoned  the 
project.  On  January  1,  1909,  I  took  a  position  in  the  law  office 
of  Gifford,  Hobbs  &  Beard,  having  supervision  of  their  real  estate 
and  trust  company  work.  About  January  1,  1911,  the  Fidelity 
Development  Company,  a  client  of  that  office,  became  very  much 
involved  as  to  its  affairs,  and  I  was  requested  to  take  charge  of 
the  business  of  that  corporation,  which  was  organized  to  develop 
or  market  a  large  stretch  of  land  in  the  Bronx,  known  as  the  Morris 
Park  Race  Track,  and  here  I  am  yet. 

"For  fifteen  years  after  graduation  I  lived  in  New  York  City. 
In  1902  having  tired  of  metropolitan  life,  I  went  out  to  East 
Orange,  N.  J.,  and  resided  there  for  four  years;  then  to  Roseland 
in  the  same  county.  I  made  that  hamlet  my  domicile  for  about 
six  years  or  until  last  June  when  I  sold  out  the  homestead  in 
Medfield,  Mass.,  and  purchased  a  'near'  farm  of  six  acres  in 
Florham  Park  in  the  neighborhood  of  Madison,  N.  J. 

"My  travels  have  been  few  and  short — never  further  east  than 
Maine,  west  than  Minnesota  and  south  than  Washington. 

"My  recreations,  readings  and  interests  have  not  been  other  than 
the  ordinary  ones  and  a  recital  of  them  would  not  be  at  all  enter- 
taining. My  view  of  life  from  the  point  where  I  stand  borders 
on  the  philosophical  and  is  dominated  by  the  conviction  that  what 
I  have  gotten  out  of  life  is  just  about  what  I  deserved  to  get  out 
of  it.  If  each  man  of  the  Class  were  perfectly  honest,  I  presume 
he  would  admit  that  he  had  made  some,  if  not  many,  mistakes  since 
he  left  the  protecting  wing  of  his  foster  mother.  I  am  willing  to 
own  up  to  my  share.  However,  if  we  can  feel  that  we  have  done 
as  well  or  nearly  as  well  as  we  could,  there  is  some  satisfaction 
in  that.  When  I  think  what  some  men  of  the  Class  have  accom- 
plished, and  that,  too,  in  the  face  of  discouraging  odds,  I  confess 


GRADUATES 


I  am  decidedly  dissatisfied  with  the  meagre  headway  which  I  have 
made.  In  the  last  analysis  what  we  are  all  seeking,  I  suppose,  is 
happiness,  so  far  as  we  can  get  it  out  of  living;  my  receipt  for 
this  is  to  proceed  along  the  line  of  least  resistance." 

Morse  attends  the  Presbyterian  church  of  Hanover,  N.  J.,  and  in 
politics  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Bar  Association 
of  New  York,  the  Order  of  Founders  and  Patriots  of  America  and 
the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 

He  has  not  married. 


*George  Francis  Nesbitt 

Died  November  27,  1900 

George  F.  Nesbitt,  son  of  Abram  Nesbitt,  a  banker,  and  Sara 
M.  (Goodwin)  Nesbitt,  was  born  in  Kingston,  Luzerne  County, 
Pa.,  January  24,  1865.  He  received  his  preparation  for  college 
at  Wyoming  Seminary. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  E.  P.  &  J.  V. 
Darling,  in  Wilkes-Barre,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  Luzerne 
County  in  June,  1890,  and  prac- 
ticed in  Wilkes-Barre,  residing 
in  Kingston. 

In  1894,  with  a  few  friends, 
he  presented  an  athletic  field  to 
Wyoming  Seminary,  and  also 
established  two  annual  prizes  for 
the  best  original  orations. 

While  on  a  hunting  trip  he 
accidentally  shot  and  instantly 
killed  himself,  on  November  27, 
1900,  about  three  miles  from  the 
village  of  Mebane,  N.  C. 

He  was  unmarried. 

[For  further  biographical 
notice  see  Quindecennial  Record, 
pages  98-101.]  GEORGE  FRANCIS  NESBITT 


326  BIOGRAPHIES 


Edward  Hiram  Norton 

Manager  of  Subscription  Department,  G.  &  C.  Merriam  Company,  Myrick 
Building,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Residence,  11  Maplewood  Terrace,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Edward  H.  Norton  is  a  son  of  Edward  Hiram  and  Catherine 
Elizabeth  (Sharp)  Norton,  who  were  married  August  28,  1861, 
and  had  two  other  children:  Catherine  Elizabeth  (died  in  1868), 
and  Carolyn  Sharp  (Norton)  Green,  who  graduated  from  the 
New  England  Conservatory  of  Music  in  1892,  and  in  1912  passed 
examinations  giving  her  the  degree  A.A.G.O.  (Associate  American 
Guild  of  Organists).  Edward  Hiram  Norton,  the  father,  was 
born  October  13,  1839,  at  Richmond,  Berkshire  County,  Mass., 
and  died  June  30,  1906,  at  Westfield,  Mass.  He  was  of  English 
descent,  his  ancestors  having  settled  in  the  Guilford  Colony  in 
1639.  He  was  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  34th  Regiment  of 
Massachusetts  Volunteers,  discharged  (on  account  of  wounds 
received  in  action)  May  16,  1865,  at  Boston,  Mass.  Catherine 
Elizabeth  Sharp  was  born  August  25,  1843,  at  Glenville,  N.  Y., 
and  died  August  30,  1907,  at  Hartford,  Conn.  She  was  descended 
from  Welsh  ancestors,  who  settled  in  Southold,  Long  Island,  N.  Y., 
about  1675. 

Norton  was  born  at  Richmond,  Mass.,  June  17,  1862.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  and  he  was  prepared  at 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  In  college  he  received  a  second  dis- 
pute in  Junior  year  and  a  first  colloquy  appointment  in  Senior 
year  and  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club. 

After  graduation  he  went  back  to  Phillips  Andover  as  instructor 
for  two  years.  In  the  summer  of  1889  he  became  connected  with 
a  publishing  business  in  Boston,  but  in  the  early  part  of  1890  he 
took  a  position  with  Dodd,  Mead  &  Company,  publishers,  of  New 
York  City,  where  from  1893  to  1897  he  was  assistant  manager  in 
connection  with  the  sale  of  the  International  Encyclopedia.  In 
1897  he  took  a  similar  position  in  connection  with  the  publication 
and  sale  of  the  Charles  Dudley  Warner  Library  of  the  World's 
Best  Literature.  In  1900  he  went  to  Springfield,  Mass.,  as 
manager  for  G.  &  C.  Merriam  Company,  in  the  sale  of  the  Refer- 
ence History  Edition  of  Webster's  New  International  Dictionary, 


GRADUATES 


327 


EDWARD   HIRAM    NORTON 


where  he  is  now  located.  He  is  also  one  of  three  trustees  of  the 
Crossett  Realty  Trust,  proprietors  of  a  Main  Street  business  block 
in  Springfield. 

On  general  principles  he  is  a  Republican  in  national  affairs,  but 
without  party  distinction  in  city  affairs.  He  is  a  member  of  Faith 
Congregational  Church  of  Springfield,  and  is  chairman  of  the 
prudential  committee,  financial  secretary  and  member  of  the  build- 
ing committee  for  the  new  church  building.  He  is  a  member  and 
treasurer  of  the  Realty  Club.  His  travels  have  been  occasional 
business  trips,  that  have  taken  him  to  the  Pacific  coast,  through 
the  South  and  into  Canada  as  far  west  as  Winnipeg. 

He  was  married  at  Philadelphia,  December  26,  1888,  to  Char- 
lotte Keller.  She  died  August  13,  1889.  He  was  married  a  second 
time,  May  6,  1891,  to  Martha  Schade.  She  died  suddenly  April 
21,  1897,  leaving  him  two  children: 

Edward  Wadhams,  born  March  8,  1892. 

John  Schade,  Yale  ex- 15,  born  July  7,  1893. 


328  BIOGRAPHIES 


He  was  again  married  October  18,  1898,  to  Marian  Wale, 
daughter  of  John  Judson  and  Clara  Wale,  of  New  York  City. 
They  have  two  children: 

Frank  W^ale,  born  September  19,  1899. 

Frederic  Judson,  born  March  28,  1904. 

He  writes:  "My  chief  interests  are  centered  in  my  four  boys, 
the  oldest  of  whom  is  studying  sanitary  engineering  at  Worcester 
Polytechnic  Institute.  He  could  more  correctly  be  called  'Hi' 
Norton  than  was  true  of  his  father,  as  he  stands  six  feet  four  and 
a  half  inches  tall.  My  second  boy,  also  a  six-footer,  is  in  the  Class 
of  1915  at  Yale.  His  weekly  letters  reflect  the  wholesome  life 
which  I  believe  prevails  now  at  old  Yale  to  even  a  higher  degree 
than  in  our  day.  Our  two  younger  boys  (now  nine  and  thirteen) 
are  both  making  good  records  at  school  and  may  some  day  add  more 
links  to  their  father's  bonds  of  interest  in  dear  old  Yale." 


Homer  Tomlinson  Partree,  M.D. 

Physician,  Torrington,  Conn. 

Homer  T.  Partree  is  a  son  of  Robert  C.  and  Sarah  Jane 
(Tomlinson)  Partree,  who  were  married  in  184-8  and  had  five 
other  children:  Frederick  (died  April  26,  1874),  Samuel  (died 
September  29,  1891),  Robert  (died  in  May,  1894),  Mary  Staples 
(died  in  May,  1913),  and  Julia  Wyckoff  Partree.  Robert  C. 
Partree  was  born  July  23,  1822,  at  Watertown,  Conn.,  and  died  in 
February,  1907,  at  Woodbury,  Conn.  He  was  of  French  descent. 
Sarah  Jane  (Tomlinson)  Partree  was  born  in  September,  1829, 
in  Woodbury,  Conn.,  and  died  in  February,  1906,  in  Woodbury, 
Conn.  She  was  of  English  descent. 

Partree  was  born  at  Woodbury,  Conn.,  December  1,  1865.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Woodbury  and  he  was  prepared  at  the 
Woodbury  Academy.  In  college  he  received  second  colloquy 
Junior  and  first  colloquy  Senior  appointments. 

After  three  years  in  the  drug  business  in  Waterbury,  he  grad- 
uated from  the  Yale  Medical  School  in  1892.  He  had  hospital 
experience  in  the  Chambers  Street  and  Broome  Street  hospitals  in 
New  York,  and  in  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Hospital,  where  he  was 


GRADUATES 


329 


HOMER   TOMLIXSON    PARTREE 


house  surgeon  until  June,  1894.  He  practiced  medicine  in  South 
Norwalk,  Conn.,,  for  a  year;  then  in  Blandford,  Mass.,  until  April, 
1904,  when  he  removed  to  Eatontown,  N.  J.  Here  he  conducted 
a  pharmacy  in  connection  with  his  medical  practice  and  in  1914 
opened  an  office  in  Red  Bank,  N.  J.  He  was  health  officer  (quali- 
fied by  examination  at  Trenton)  and  medical  inspector  of  schools. 
On  January  21,  1915,  he  left  New  Jersey  and  is  now  practicing  in 
Torrington,  Conn. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Shrewsbury  Presbyterian  Church,  was  a 
trustee  and  is  now  an  elder.  In  politics  he  is  a  Progressive.  He 
is  treasurer  of  the  Citizens'  Improvement  Society  and  a  member 
of  the  New  Jersey  State  Medical  Society  and  the  Eastern  Practi- 
tioners' Society  of  Monmouth  County,  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation and  American  Academy  of  Medicine.  He  read  a  paper  at 
a  meeting  of  the  last-named  society  at  Atlantic  City  in  June,  1911. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  board  of  library  trustees  during  his  last 
year's  residence  in  Blandford. 


830 


BIOGRAPHIES 


He  was  married  June  26,  1895,  to  Minnie  Amanda,  daughter 
of  Frederick  A.  and  Jemima  (Dunham)  Havens,  of  Wethersfield, 
Conn.  They  have  three  daughters,  all  born  at  Blandford: 

Eulalia,  born  July  19,  1896. 

Pauline  May,  born  July  17,  1897. 

Gladys,  born  June  11,  1900. 


*Louis  Harman  Peet 

Died  October  18,  1905 

Louis   H.   Peet,  son   of  John   Henry   and   Caroline    (Northrup) 
Peet,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  August  16,  1863.     He  prepared 

at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  In- 
stitute and  in  college  received  a 

^dtj£if*^  third  prize  in  English  composi- 

JlP  tion    in    both    first    and    second 

terms,     a     Townsend     premium, 

ffc|  "Ijplt  ^P  was  one  °f  tne  editors  of  the  Yale 

Courant,  and  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  and  Chi  Delta 
Theta. 

After  graduation  he  was  on 
the  staff  of  the  New  York  Times 
until  1892,  when  he  went  with 
the  American  Book  Company.  In 
1901  he  published  "Who's  the 
Author?"  and  his  volumes  on  the 
Trees  and  Shrubs  of  Central 
and  Prospect  Parks  awakened 
a  widespread  interest  in  the 
natural  beauties  of  these  parks. 

He  also  wrote  a  popular  series 
Louis    HARMAN    PEET  „ 

01  articles  on  the  trees  of  Cen- 
tral Park  for  the  New  York 

Evening  Post.     He  was  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Botanical  Section  of  the  Brooklyn  Institute  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 
He  died  suddenly  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  October  18,  1905. 


GRADUATES 


331 


He  married  October  14,  1897,  Nellie  Marvin,  daughter  of  Edwin 
Gansevoort  and  Cynthia  Geneva  (Sabin)   Perkins,  of  Brooklyn. 

[For    further    biographical    notice    see    Vicennial    Record,    page 

142.] 


*  Arthur  Reed  Pennell 

Died  March  10,  1903 

Arthur  R.  Pennell,  son  of  Captain  John  D.  and  Abbie  Jacobs 
(Reed)  Pennell,  was  born  on  December  12,  1864,  in  the  South 
Pacific  Ocean,  on  board  the  Deb- 
orah Pennell,  a  ship  which  his 
father  commanded.  John  Fred- 
erick Pennell,  '90  S.,  is  a  brother. 
He  spent  much  of  his  boyhood 
in  long  voyages  on  his  father's 
ships,  but  after  his  father's  death 
returned  to  the  family  home  in 
Brunswick,  Maine,  where  he  re- 
mained until  he  began  his  college 
preparation  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.  During  his  col- 
lege course  he  supported  himself. 
He  received  a  dissertation  ap- 
pointment in  Junior  year  and  a 
first  dispute  rank  in  Senior  year, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit 
Club. 

After  graduation  he  took  the 
course  in  the  Yale  School  of  Law, 
and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B., 
cum  laude,  in  1889.  The  follow- 
ing year  he  was  in  the  office  of  Sprague,  Morey,  Sprague  & 
Brownell,  in  Buffalo.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1890,  and 
in  April,  1891,  formed  a  partnership  with  his  classmate,  Thomas 
Penney,  which  was  dissolved  by  mutual  consent  in  1894.  From 
that  time  he  practiced  independently. 


ARTHUR    REED   PENNELL 


332  BIOGRAPHIES 


He  married  on  October  15,  1891,  Carrie  B.,  daughter  of  Winslow 
M.  and  Alice  M.  (Clark)  Lamb,  of  New  Haven.  They  had  no 
children. 

While  riding  with  his  wife  in  his  automobile  on  March  10,  1903, 
in  Buffalo,  the  machine  suddenly  turned  from  the  road  and 
plunged  into  a  quarry,  crushing  Pennell  beneath  it.  He  was 
instantly  killed  and  Mrs.  Pennell  died  from  her  injuries  the 
following  day. 


Thomas  Penney 

A  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Norton,  Penney,  Spring  &  Moore,  Ellicott 

Square,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  General  Counsel  for  the  International 

Railway  Company 

Residence,  54  Hodge  Avenue,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Penney  was  born  in  London,  England,  May  6,  1859.  Having 
come  to  the  United  States,  he  was  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary. 
In  college  he  received  a  second  prize  for  declamation  in  Sophomore 
year,  a  second  dispute  appointment  in  Junior  year  and  a  first 
colloquy  appointment  in  Senior  year,  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale 
Banner  and  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club. 

He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  cum  laude  from  the  Yale  School 
of  Law  in  1889,  and  after  a  year  in  the  office  of  Green  &  Marcy 
at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  opened  a  law  office  and  subsequently  for  a  time 
was  a  partner  of  Arthur  R.  Pennell,  '87.  He  was  first  assistant 
district  attorney  of  Erie  County,  N.  Y.,  from  1894  to  1898,  and 
in  1898  was  appointed  district  attorney  by  Governor  Roosevelt  to 
fill  a  vacancy.  He  was  elected  to  the  same  position,  on  the 
Republican  ticket  in  1900,  by  a  majority  of  something  over  10,000. 
In  1902  he  became  partner  with  Porter  Norton  and  Charles  B. 
Sears,  Yale  '92,  under  the  firm  name  of  Norton,  Penney  &  Sears. 
Beginning  in  1908  and  ending  in  1913,  he  was  the  president  of 
the  International  Street  Railway  Company  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  which 
operates  the  electric  lines  in  the  cities  of  Buffalo,  Niagara  Falls, 
Lockport  and  the  intermediate  territory.  He  has  now  resumed 
the  active  practice  of  law  and  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Norton, 
Penney,  Spring  &  Moore.  He  has  also  been  made  general  counsel 


GRADUATES 


THOMAS  PENNEY 


for  the  International  Railway  Company,  in  charge  of  the  law  and 
claim  departments. 

He  is  a  Republican  and  has  been  active  in  politics  and  on  the 
stump,  though  not  of  late  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  West- 
minster Presbyterian  Church  of  Buffalo,  and  of  the  Buffalo, 
Country,  Park  and  Ellicott  clubs  of  Buffalo,  the  Graduates  Club 
of  New  Haven,  and  the  Yale  and  Railroad  clubs  of  New  York. 

He  was  married  September  15,  1891,  to  Celia  E.,  daughter  of 
Charles  N.  and  Elizabeth  H.  Patterson,  of  Buffalo.  They  have 
four  children,  all  born  in  Buffalo: 

Norman,  born  September  25,  1892.  He  is  an  ex-member  of  the 
Class  of  1916  at  Yale. 

Charles  Patterson,  born  June  5,  1894.  He  graduated  from  the 
Hotchkiss  School  in  1913  and  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1917 
at  Yale. 

Thomas,   Jr.,  born   January   7,    1896.      He   graduated  with   the 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Class  of  1914  at  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  1918  at  Yale. 

Margaret,  born  November  16,  1897.     She  is  attending  the  Misses 
Shipley  School  at  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 


Thomas  Norwood  Penrose 

Retired 
Residence,  409  Beechtree  Avenue,  Wayne,  Pa. 

Thomas    N.    Penrose,  the   son   of   Thomas   N.    Penrose,   medical 
director  in  the  United  States  Navy  during  the  Civil  War,  was  born 

March  26,  1864,  in  Philadelphia, 
Pa.  His  first  American  ancestor 
in  his  paternal  line  was  a  son  of 
Thomas  Penrose  and  came  from 
England  in  the  year  1698,  set- 
tling in  Philadelphia.  In  his  ma- 
ternal line  his  first  American 
ancestor  came  from  Scotland  and 
settled  in  Philadelphia  in  the 
year  1817.  His  father,  Thomas 
N.  Penrose,  was  an  officer  in  the 
United  States  Navy  (Medical 
Corps)  from  the  outbreak  of  the 
Civil  War  until  the  time  of  his 
death,  having  passed  through  all 
the  successive  grades  of  that 
corps,  viz.:  assistant  surgeon, 
past  assistant  surgeon,  surgeon, 
medical  inspector  and  medical 
director.  During  the  Civil  War 
he  took  part  in  numerous  naval 
engagements  under  Admirals 

Farragut  and  Porter  and  others,  in  the  activities  of  both  the  Atlantic 
and  Gulf  Squadrons.  Throughout  his  naval  career  of  more  than 
forty-one  years,  through  various  assignments  to  duty  on  numerous 
ships  of  the  navy  and  at  naval  stations,  he  had  seen  service  in  all 


THOMAS  NORWOOD  PENROSE 


GRADUATES  835 


parts  of  the  world.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Military  Order  of  the 
Loyal  Legion  and  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  He  was 
a  graduate  of  the  Episcopal  Academy  of  Philadelphia  and  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  received  the  degrees  of 
M.D.  and  Ph.D.  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

Penrose  was  prepared  at  the  Episcopal  Academy  of  Philadelphia. 
In  college  he  received  a  first  dispute  Junior  and  a  second  dispute 
Senior  appointment  and  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  Law  School  of  Columbia 
University,  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1889,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York  City.  Subsequently  he  took  a 
course  covering  one  year  of  special  work  in  the  School  of  Mines, 
Columbia  University. 

He  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  and  for  a  number  of  years 
was  connected  with  the  law  department  of  the  Lawyers'  Title 
Insurance  &  Trust  Company  of  New  York.  He  has  now  retired 
from  business. 

He  has  never  married. 

Arthur  Perkins 

Lawyer,  of  the  firm  of  Perkins,  Wells  &  Scott,  803  Main  Street, 
Hartford,  Conn. 

Residence,  95  Niles  Street,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Arthur  Perkins  is  a  son  of  Charles  E.  and  Lucy  M.  (Adams) 
Perkins,  who  were  married  in  1855  and  had  four  other  children: 
Mary  Russell  (Perkins)  Hooker,  Emily  (Perkins)  Knapp,  Lucy  A. 
and  Thomas  C.  Perkins.  Charles  E.  Perkins  was  born  in  1831, 
in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  has  always  resided  there.  He  is  of  English 
descent,  his  ancestors  coming  to  this  country  about  1630,  and 
settling  in  Ipswich,  Mass.  He  graduated  from  Williams  College 
in  1853  and  has  since  been  practicing  law  in  Hartford,  Conn. 
Lucy  M.  Adams  was  born  about  the  year  1835  in  Castine,  Maine, 
and  died  in  1893,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Perkins  was  born  May  16,  1864,  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  where  he 
has  always  lived,  and  was  prepared  at  the  Hartford  High  School. 
In  college  he  received  second  colloquy  appointments  in  both  Junior 
and  Senior  years  and  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon. 


BIOGRAPHIES 


ARTHUR   PEHKIXS 


After  graduation  from  the  Yale  Law  School  in  1889,  he  began 
practicing  law  with  his  father  under  the  firm  name  of  Perkins  & 
Perkins.  Since  the  retirement  of  his  father  from  practice,  he  has 
been  associated  with  Ralph  O.  Wells,  '01,  and  Clement  Scott, 
Harvard  '04.  He  was  for  several  years  associate  judge  of  the 
City  Police  Court  of  Hartford,  and  served  two  terms  as  a  member 
of  the  Common  Council. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Asylum  Hill  Congregational  Church  and 
in  politics  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Hartford 
Club,  the  Graduates  Club  of  New  Haven,  the  Reform  Club  of 
New  York  and  the  State  Bar  Association.  He  is  chairman  of  the 
committee  of  the  Hartford  Bar  Association  in  charge  of  the  Bar 
Library,  and  is  a  member  and  a  trustee  of  the  Alexander  Hamilton 
National  Memorial  Association. 

He  was  married  May  22,  1895,  to  Amy,  daughter  of  Helen 
Clark  and  the  late  Evans  E.  Denniston,  of  Philadelphia.  They 
have  one  child: 

Helen  Denniston,  born  February  22,  1898,  in  Hartford. 


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Herbert  Farrington  Perkins 

Division  Manager  of  the  International  Harvester  Company,  606  South 
Michigan  Boulevard,  Chicago,  111. 

Residence,  6106  Kenmore  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 

Herbert  F.  Perkins  is  a  son  of  George  Augustus  and  Sarah 
Elizabeth  (Farrington)  Perkins,  who  were  married  July  17,  1854, 
and  had  two  other  children:  William  Abbott,  B.A.  Bowdoin  '83, 
M.A.  '86,  Andover  Theological  Seminary  '88,  and  Carroll  Augustus, 
studied  at  Williams  College  from  1892  to  1894  (died  July  11,  1897, 
at  Boxboro,  Mass.).  George  Augustus  Perkins,  born  June  24, 
1827,  in  Weld,  Maine,  and  died  May  15,  1895,  in  Wendell,  Mass., 
was  a  son  of  Lafayette  and  Dorcas  (Abbott)  Perkins,  and  was 
descended  from  Edmund  Perkins,  who  lived  in  Boston,  Mass., 
prior  to  1677.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin  College  in  1849, 
received  an  M.A.  in  1852,  graduated  from  Bangor  Theological 
Seminary  in  1853,  taught  Hebrew  at  that  place,  1853-54,  was 
a  missionary  to  Marash,  Turkey,  by  appointment  of  the  American 
Board,  1854-59,  studied  at  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  1861-63, 
was  a  professor  at  Robert  College,  Constantinople,  1863-65,  a 
teacher  in  Gorham,  Maine,  1866-71,  and  a  Congregational  pastor 
in  different  parts  of  the  New  England  states  from  1872  until  his 
death.  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Farrington)  Perkins  was  born  May  17, 
1832,  in  Brewer,  Maine,  and  died  June  22,  1912,  in  Grafton,  Mass. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Oliver  and  Hannah  (Rider)  Farrington 
and  was  descended  from  John  Farrington,  who  lived  in  Dedham, 
Mass.,  in  1646. 

Perkins  was  born  in  Constantinople,  Turkey,  October  18,  1864. 
His  boyhood  was  spent  in  various  places  in  New  England  and  he 
was  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  In  college  he  received 
a  third  prize  in  Sophomore  English  composition  in  first  term  and 
a  first  prize  in  second  term,  a  Junior  exhibition  prize,  oration 
appointments  in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years,  a  Townsend  pre- 
mium, was  a  DeForest  speaker,  an  editor  of  Pot-Pourri  and  a 
member  of  Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Scroll  and  Key  and 
Chi  Delta  Theta. 

He  is  at  present  division  manager  of  the  International  Harvester 
Company  and  is  also  president  of  the  Wisconsin  Steel  Company 


888  BIOGRAPHIES 


and  of  the  Wisconsin  Lumber  Company  and  director  of  the  Con- 
tinental &  Commercial  National  Bank,  of  the  Chicago  Savings 
Bank  &  Trust  Company,,  and  of  the  United  Coal  Mining  Company. 
He  writes: 

"I  came  from  Yale  immediately  into  the  malleable  iron  business, 
spending  the  summer  after  graduation  with  the  Naugatuck  Malle- 
able Iron  Company,  at  Naugatuck,  Conn.,  doing  any  kind  of 
clerical  work,  and  in  the  fall  of  1887  came  to  Chicago  as  a  clerk 
with  the  Chicago  Malleable  Iron  Company,  now  the  National 
Malleable  Castings  Company.  For  two  years  or  more  I  was  in 
the  factory,  time-keeping,  working  among  the  men,  mostly  for- 
eigners, during  which  time  I  acquired  a  knowledge  of  the  foreign 
labor  in  this  country,  their  personal  characteristics  and  working 
conditions,  which  has  been  of  increasing  value.  After  these  two 
years  in  the  factory  I  went  into  the  office,  doing  anything  that 
came  to  hand,  and  gradually  working  up  the  line  until  I  became 
assistant  treasurer  of  the  National  Malleable  Castings  Company, 
having  supervision  of  the  office  force  and  the  credits,  and  doing 
the  purchasing  for  the  Chicago  business. 

"In  1899  I  left  this  company  to  take  the  position  of  purchasing 
agent  for  the  McCormick  Harvesting  Machine  Company,  which 
company  was  later  merged  into  the  International  Harvester  Com- 
pany. After  the  merger,  I  organized  the  purchasing  department 
for  this  combination;  later  organized  the  steel  department  and 
about  1907  was  made  division  manager,  having  supervision  of  the 
purchasing  department,  steel  and  timber  properties,  including  the 
Wisconsin  Steel  Company  and  the  Wisconsin  Lumber  Company,  and 
the  fiber  department,  operating  in  Yucatan  and  the  Philippine 
Islands.  Last  year  (1911)  I  organized  the  purchasing  department 
in  connection  with  the  four  European  factories  of  the  International 
Harvester  Company  and  this  department  will  also  report  to  me. 

"The  most  interesting  work  in  hand  of  late  years  has  been 
developing  the  raw  material  resources  of  the  company,  particularly 
the  iron  mines  in  Minnesota,  the  timber  and  saw  mill  interests  in 
the  hardwood  districts  of  the  South,  and  for  the  last  year  or  two 
have  been  devoting  a  great  deal  of  time  to  the  building  of  a  coke 
manufacturing  and  coal  mining  town  in  the  mountains  of  eastern 
Kentucky. 


GRADUATES 


839 


HERBERT  FARRIXGTON   PERKINS 


"There  is  a  sweep  and  comprehensiveness  to  the  operations  of  a 
great  organization  like  the  International  Harvester  Company 
which  has  appealed  to  me  in  a  very  unusual  degree  and  I  have 
felt  that  all  the  education  a  man  can  get  is  called  into  play  in 
the  functions  of  such  business  life,  and  I  cannot  say  that  I  have 
missed  particularly  the  lack  of  a  technical  or  scientific  education, 
although  my  duties  are  the  immediate  supervision  of  technical  and 
scientific  industries. 

"General  business  judgment,  as  applied  to  organization  and 
business  policy,  has  been  the  chief  function  here  as  in  most  busi- 
ness and  a  mind  trained  to  think  logically,  whether  that  training 
comes  through  a  scientific  or  a  classical  course,  is  the  necessary 
factor  in  the  successful  prosecution  of  business. 

"One  of  the  most  interesting  developments  of  modern  business 
has  been  the  relation  of  capital  to  labor  and  I  have  taken  great 
interest  in  this  company's  policy  along  these  lines. 

"While  I  have  joined  a  number  of  clubs,  I  give  very  little  atten- 


340  BIOGRAPHIES 


tion  to  club  life,  using  these  facilities  merely  as  matters  of  occa- 
sional convenience,  prefering  to  spend  such  time  as  I  have  apart 
from  necessary  travel  in  this  and  other  countries,  in  the  bosom  of 
a  growing  family  of  boys  and  girls,  who  are  one  by  one  going  back 
to  the  East  for  their  college  education. 

"I  play  golf  as  much  time  as  I  can  give  from  business  for  this 
purpose;  walk  a  good  deal;  keep  outdoors  as  much  as  I  can,  in  the 
belief  that  good  clean  physical  condition  is  an  essential  of  success- 
ful business  or  comfortable  existence  anywhere.  My  relaxations  are 
in  studying  and  collecting  etchings  and  in  reading  good  books — 
Billy  Phelps'  particularly.  With  my  family  I  am  a  fairly  constant 
attendant  at  church,  and  while  I  could  not  qualify  as  an  altogether 
orthodox  Presbyterian,  I  believe  that  the  church  as  an  organiza- 
tion is  a  very  important  factor  in  the  social  and  moral  education 
and  elevation  of  the  community  and  should  command  the  support 
of  every  intelligent  man  who  wants  to  forward  these  movements. 

"In  politics  I  have  been  an  independent,  though  generally  voting 
the  Republican  ticket;  was  a  Bull  Mooser  in  the  last  campaign  and 
believe  in  the  alignment  of  politics  along  progressive  and  radical 
lines  instead  of  the  old  party  lines,  and  expect  that  I  am  by  tem- 
perament, and  as  a  result  of  my  studies  of  men  and  conditions,  a 
conservative  Progressive. 

"I  was  particularly  impressed  at  the  time  of  our  Twenty-fifth 
Anniversary  of  the  need  of  the  eastern  contingent  coming  West 
more  than  they  do  and  learning  something  of  the  conditions  and 
the  mental  and  spiritual  attitude  of  the  great  Central  West.  We 
have  to  go  East  to  New  York,  but  the  eastern  men,  particularly 
New  Yorkers  and  New  Englanders,  spend  far  too  little  time  in  the 
Central  West,  where  the  country  is  experiencing  its  greatest  devel- 
opment and  where  the  most  virile  social  and  economic  forces  are 
at  work  developing  a  moral  and  political  sentiment  that  our  east- 
ern men  should  be  studying.  The  extreme  conservatism  of  the 
East  and  the  aggressive  enthusiasm  of  the  West  should  find  a  fair 
balance  in  this  tremendously  growing  middle  section  of  the  United 
States, — the  Mississippi  Valley,  the  heart  of  the  continent.  This 
is  not  booming  Chicago;  it  is  an  expression  of  a  thoughtful  con- 
viction after  mingling  with  the  boys,  so  many  of  whom  are  from 
the  East,  at  our  last  Reunion." 


GRADUATES  341 


Perkins  is  a  member  of  the  Glen  View  and  Old  Elm  Golf  clubs, 
also  the  Chicago,,  University  and  City  clubs  of  Chicago  and  of  the 
Duquesne  Club  of  Pittsburgh,,  Pa. 

He  was  married  December  14,  1892,,  to  Margaret  Dana,  daughter 
of  Franklin  H.  Head,  a  retired  manufacturer,  and  Catherine 
(Durkee)  Head,  of  Chicago.  They  have  four  children,  all  born 
in  Chicago: 

Franklin  Head,  Yale  '16,  born  September  4,  1894. 

Margaret  and  Helen,  twins,  born  March  27,   1896. 

Elizabeth,  born  October  11,  1909. 


George  Daniel  Pettee 

Director  of  the  Berkshire  Hills  Schools,  Great  Barrington,  Mass. 

George  D.  Pettee  is  the  son  of  Daniel  Webster  and  Emily 
Frances  (Allen)  Pettee,  who  were  married  in  November,  1857, 
and  had  four  other  children,  three  daughters  and  a  son:  Adeline 
Frances  Pettee,  Mount  Holyoke  '81  (died  in  1900  in  Pittsfield, 
Mass.),  Emma  Louisa  Pettee,  Mount  Holyoke  '88,  Helen  Webster 
Pettee,  Wellesley  '98,  and  Lemuel  Gardner  Pettee,  Yale  '98. 
Daniel  Webster  Pettee  was  born  February  30,  1832,  in  Sharon, 
Mass.,  and  has  resided  in  that  town  and  Walpole,  Mass.,  con- 
tinuously, having  kept  a  country  store,  which  was  succeeded  by  a 
department  store,  on  the  same  site  for  sixty  years.  His  family 
traces  its  ancestry  directly  to  England  and  France  in  the  sixteenth 
and  seventeenth  centuries.  Pettee's  mother  was  born  May  1,  1836, 
in  Walpole,  Mass.,  and  died  in  1897  in  Sharon,  Mass.  She  was  a 
descendant  of  the  Allen  and  Fisher  families  of  eastern  Massa- 
chusetts and  before  her  marriage  taught  school. 

Pettee  was  born  January  2,  1865,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and 
entered  Andover  from  Sharon,  Mass.,  where  his  boyhood  was  spent. 
In  college  he  received  a  minor  mathematical  prize,  a  high  oration 
Junior  and  an  oration  Senior  appointment,  and  was  elected  to 
Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Banner,  a  member 
of  the  Lacrosse  Team  and  a  Pundit. 

After  graduation  he  returned  to  Andover  as  an  instructor  and 
served  as  secretary  of  the  faculty  and  registrar  and  assistant  to 


BIOGRAPHIES 


GEORGE    DAKIEL    PETTEE 


Principal  Bancroft  from  about  1889  until  he  left  the  school  in 
1900.  From  1900  to  1908  he  was  principal  of  the  University 
School,  Cleveland,  a  school  peculiar  in  its  blending  of  technical 
and  manual  training  courses  with  classical. 

In  1908  he  resigned  his  school  principalship  to  establish  a  group 
of  three  schools,  the  Berkshire  Hills  Schools,  on  a  large  school 
estate  among  the  Taconic  ranges  of  the  Berkshire  Hills.  The  first 
school  of  the  proposed  group  of  three  was  operated  from  1909  to 
1911.  During  reorganization  necessitated  by  a  change  of  business 
partners,  the  school  provided  for  only  a  limited  number  of  private 
pupils,  but  his  plans  were  to  open  two  schools  in  September,  1913. 
Regarding  this  work  he  writes : 

"The  aim  of  this  school  venture  is  realized  only  as  the  following 
educational  proposition  is  proved:  'That  a  few,  busy,  eager  school 
years  devoted  to  vigorous  study  of  the  natural  and  physical  world 
make  more  for  intellectual  power  and  true  personal  culture  than 
incomplete  and  excessive  studies  in  linguistics.  The  honoring  of 


GRADUATES  343 


vital  and  practical  knowledge  during  adolescent  years  is  the  surest 
foundation  for  mental  completeness  and  even  of  literary  taste  in 
the  later  educational  experience.'  It  is  a  worthy  task  and  is  my 
job."  As  an  adjunct  to  the  school  enterprise  he  is  also  running  a 
group  of  three  farms. 

Pettee  has  done  some  graduate  work  at  Yale  and  abroad  and 
received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  his  Alma  Mater  in  1894.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Congregational  church  and  a  Republican  in 
politics,  but  in  1914  was  a  candidate  for  State  senator  on  the 
Progressive  ticket.  He  has  written  extensively  on  educational 
subjects. 

He  was  married  August  27,  1888,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to  Rose 
Marie,  daughter  of  Danforth  Otis  Lombard  and  Frances  (Mathew- 
son)  Lombard.  They  have  had  four  children,  two  of  whom  died 
in  infancy.  The  two  living  are: 

Allen  Danforth,  Yale  '11,  born  September  2,  1889,  in  Andover, 
Mass. 

Frances  Howard,  Wellesley  '18,  born  February  29,  1896. 

Allen  D.  Pettee  prepared  at  the  University  School,  Cleveland. 
He  received  an  oration  appointment,  was  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man Union,  and  rowed  on  the  Class  Crew.  His  fraternity  was 
Beta  Theta  Pi.  Entering  college  in  1907,  he  completed  his  work 
for  a  degree  in  three  years  but  is  enrolled  with  the  Class  of  1911. 
He  is  now  studying  in  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology. 


William  Lyon  Phelps,  Ph.D. 

Lampson  Professor  of  English  Literature,  Yale  University,  Yale  Station, 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

Residence,  110  Whitney  Avenue,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

William  Lyon  Phelps  is  a  son  of  Sylvanus  Dryden  and  Sophia 
Emilia  (Linsley)  Phelps,  who  were  married  in  August,  1847,  and 
had  four  other  children,  of  whom  two  are  living:  Dryden  William 
Phelps,  B.A.  Brown  '77,  M.A.  Brown,  B.D.  Yale  '92,  and  Arthur 
Stevens  Phelps,  B.A.  Yale  '86,  B.D.  '89,  M.A.  '06  and  D.D. 
Occidental  College  '09.  Sylvanus  Dryden  Phelps  was  born  May 
15,  1816,  in  Suffield,  Conn.,  and  died  November  23,  1895,  in  New 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


WILLIAM    LYON    PHELPS 


Haven,  Conn.  He  was  descended  from  William  Phelps,  who  came 
from  England  in  1638  and  settled  in  Windsor,  Conn.  He  received 
the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Brown  in  1844,  M.A.  from  Yale  in  1849 
and  D.D.  from  Madison  University  in  1854,  and  was  a  trustee 
of  his  Alma  Mater  from  1879  to  1895.  He  graduated  from  Yale 
Theological  Seminary  in  1847  and  was  a  Baptist  minister.  He 
was  the  editor  of  the  Christian  Secretary  of  Hartford  and  published 
several  volumes  of  original  poems.  Sophia  Emilia  Linsley  was 
born  November  16,  1823,  at  Stratford,  Conn.,  and  died  April  13, 
1903,  in  New  Haven.  She  was  descended  from  the  Earl  of  Strath- 
more  and  from  William  Lyon,  who  came  to  this  country  in  the 
seventeenth  century.  She  wrote  for  periodicals  all  her  life. 

Phelps  was  born  in  New  Haven,  January  2,  1865.  His  boyhood 
was  spent  in  Hartford  and  he  was  prepared  at  the  high  school  of 
that  place.  In  college  he  received  a  first  prize  for  English  compo- 
sition, a  Junior  exhibition  prize,  a  Townsend  premium,  an  oration 
Junior  and  a  high  oration  Senior  appointment,  one-year  honors  in 
philosophy  and  in  English,  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  was 


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an  editor  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Pundit  Club,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Chi  Delta  Theta.     He  writes: 

"During  the  year  1887-88  I  was  superintendent  of  Dwight 
Hall,,  and  a  student  in  the  Yale  Graduate  School.  The  next  year 
I  was  teacher  of  English  and  history  at  Westminster  School  during 
the  first  twelvemonth  of  its  existence,  at  Dobbs  Ferry,  N.  Y.  It 
was  this  experience  that  convinced  me  that  I  should  find  more 
happiness  in  teaching  than  in  any  other  occupation,  a  conviction 
even  stronger  now  than  then.  I  returned  in  1889  to  Yale  as  a 
student  in  the  Graduate  School,  having  received  a  Lamed  Scholar- 
ship, and  remained  until  June,  1890.  The  refusal  of  the  Yale 
faculty  to  grant  my  application  for  a  continuance  of  a  scholarship 
was  a  distinct  blessing  in  disguise ;  for  it  drove  me  away  from  Yale, 
and  gave  me  what  I  needed,  experience  in  another  university.  I 
spent  the  summer  of  1890  bicycling  through  Europe  with  Pettee 
and  H.  Hart,  in  fulfillment  of  a  vow  made  with  Pettee  one  memo- 
rable night  in  our  Sophomore  year,  while  we  were  sitting  in  nigger 
heaven  in  Carll's  Opera  House.  From  1890  to  1892  I  remained  at 
Harvard,  the  first  year  on  a  Morgan  Fellowship,  and  the  second 
year  as  instructor  in  English.  In  the  autumn  of  1891  I  declined 
a  call  to  an  instructorship  at  Yale,  but  the  call  being  renewed  in 
May,  1892,  in  a  more  attractive  way,  I  accepted,  and  have  been 
teaching  at  Yale  since  September,  1892.  In  June,  1891,  on  the 
same  day,  I  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  Harvard  and  Ph.D. 
from  Yale.  I  was  promoted  to  an  assistant  professorship  at  Yale 
in  1896,  and  in  1901  I  was  made  professor  of  English  literature 
on  the  foundation  just  created  by  the  generous  bequest  of  William 
Lampson,  of  the  Class  of  1862. 

"On  December  21,  1892,  at  Huron  City,  Mich.,  I  was  married 
to  Miss  Annabel  Hubbard,  and  we  have  lived  happily  forever  after. 

"Besides  a  number  of  summer  vacations  spent  in  Europe,  I  have 
lived  abroad  through  two  sabbatical  years,  1903-04<  and  1911-12, 
returning  in  June,  1912,  to  attend  the  Twenty-fifth  Reunion.  These 
two  sabbatical  years  have  been  spent  mainly  on  the  continent,  and 
more  in  Munich  than  in  any  other  city. 

"My  bibliography  has  kept  Bill  Burns  awake  o'  nights  for 
months.  In  politics  I  am  a  strong  Republican,  opposed  to  Roosevelt 
and  his  policies,  opposed  no  less  strongly  to  Wilson  on  account  of 


346  BIOGRAPHIES 


his  desertion  of  the  old-time  Democratic  policy  of  state  rights  and 
local  self-government.  But  I  do  not  find  politics  nearly  so  interest- 
ing as  religion,  literature,  music  and  art,  which  seem  to  me  much 
more  important  and  more  worthy  of  serious  attention.  I  am  a 
deacon  in  the  Calvary  Baptist  Church  at  New  Haven,  and  a  trustee 
of  the  Methodist  church  at  Huron  City,  Mich.,  where  I  often  preach 
in  the  summer  time.  I  am  a  member  of  the  National  Institute  of 
Arts  and  Letters,  which  I  suppose  is  the  greatest  honor  that  has* 
come  to  me.  I  am  a  member  of  the  following  clubs:  Authors' 
Club  in  London,  Yale  Club  in  New  York,  and  of  the  following  in 
New  Haven:  Friday  Night  Club,  Lawn  Club,  Country  Club,  and 
Graduates  Club.  I  am  president  of  the  New  Haven  Symphony 
Orchestra,  president  of  the  New  Haven  Choral  Union,  president 
of  the  Yale  Cooperative  Corporation  and  I  was  the  first  president 
of  the  Yale  Elizabethan  Club,  an  organization  founded  by  A.  S. 
Cochran,  '96,  and  which  has  been  already  of  incalculable  benefit 
to  Yale. 

"I  played  hockey  until  I  was  thirty-seven,  and  baseball  till  I 
was  forty-five:  finding  these  games  too  strenuous  for  my  advancing 
years,  I  am  now  a  devoted  player  of  tennis  and  of  golf,  which  I 
play  in  winter  as  well  as  in  summer,  the  glorious  winter  climate  of 
New  Haven,  which  has  I  think  the  finest  climate  in  the  world, 
making  these  enjoyments  possible.  My  favorite  indoor  games  are 
billiards  and  duplicate  whist,  not  bridge. 

"Although  I  was  happy  as  an  undergraduate,  I  have  been  grow- 
ing happier  ever  since,  and  if  I  live  to  be  eighty,  expect  to  have 
the  time  of  my  life  then." 

Frederick  Smith  Pickett,  M.D. 

Medical    Referee    of    the    Philadelphia    Agencies    of    the    Equitable    Life 
Assurance  Society,  204  Commercial  Trust  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Residence,  2035  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Frederick  S.  Pickett  was  born  in  Hartland,  Conn.,  November 
8,  1865,  the  son  of  Frederick  and  Antoinette  E.  (Smith)  Pickett. 
His  boyhood  was  spent  at  Tariffville,  Conn.,  and  he  was  prepared 
at  the  Hartford  Public  High  School.  In  college  he  received  first 
dispute  appointments  in  Junior  and  Senior  years. 


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He  received  the  degree  of 
M.D.  from  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons,  Columbia 
University,  in  1891,  and  one  year 
later  became  inspector  for  the 
medical  department  of  the  Equi- 
table Life  Assurance  Society  at 
Cleveland,  where  he  remained 
until  the  spring  of  1909,  when 
he  was  transferred  to  Phila- 
delphia. 

He  is  consulting  medical  di- 
rector of  the  ministerial  susten- 
tation  fund  of  the  Presbyterian 
church.  He  is  an  Episcopalian 
and  in  politics  a  Democrat. 

He  was  married  August  6, 
1902. 


FREDERICK   SMITH   PICKETT 


Robert  William  Playford 

Lawyer,   Uniontown,  Fayette  County,  Pa. 

Robert  W.  Playford  is  a  son  of  William  Henry  and  Ellen 
(Krepps)  Playford,  who  were  married  October  23,  1861,  and  had 
four  other  children:  Krepps  (died  in  infancy,  in  1873),  Pauline 
Alice  (died  in  1887),  married  S.  C.  Gary  of  Baltimore  in  1885, 
Charles  Playford  and  Blanche  (Playford)  Boyle.  William  Henry 
Playford  was  born  in  Brownsville,  Pa.,  August  21,  1833,  and  died 
in  Uniontown,  September  23,  1903.  He  was  a  son  of  Dr.  Robert 
William  Playford,  who  was  born  in  London,  England,  in  1799,  and 
came  to  Brownsville  in  1820,  after  graduating  from  Eton  and  the 
Royal  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  London.  The 
maternal  line  of  the  family  is  of  early  American  ancestry.  William 
Henry  Playford  was  a  graduate  of  Jefferson  College  in  the  Class 
of  1854.  Directly  after  graduation  he  was  for  one  year  principal 
of  Waterproof  (Louisiana)  Academy.  In  1857  he  was  admitted 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


ROBERT  WILLIAM   PLAYFORD 


to  the  bar  of  Fayette  County,  Pa.,  and  practiced  his  profession 
until  the  time  of  his  death.  In  the  year  1861  he  was  made  district 
attorney  of  Fayette  County  and  was  shortly  afterwards  elected  to 
the  state  legislature  for  two  terms  and  to  the  state  senate  for  one 
term.  Our  classmate's  mother,  Ellen  Krepps,  was  born  January 
31,  1834,  at  Brownsville,  Pa.,  and  died  at  Uniontown,  Pa., 
January  7,  1914.  She  was  a  granddaughter  of  John  Krepps,  who 
was  born  in  Germany  and  settled  in  Washington  County,  Pa.,  in 
the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

Play  ford  was  born  in  Uniontown,  April  19,  1865,  and  spent  his 
boyhood  in  that  place.  He  was  prepared  at  The  Hill  School, 
Pottstown,  Pa.  In  college  he  was  on  the  Junior  Prom  Committee 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit  and  University  clubs  and  of 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

Since  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  has  practiced  law  in  Uniontown, 
except  from  1889  to  1893,  when  he  was  in  Middlesborough,  Ky. 
He  is  vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  Uniontown  Water  Com- 


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pany,  treasurer  and  a  director  of  the  Partridge  Coal  &  Coke 
Company  and  a  director  of  the  Fayette  Title  &  Trust  Company  of 
Uniontown  and  of  the  Luzerne  Coal  &  Coke  Company. 

He  is  a  vestryman  in  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  Church,  Uniontown, 
Pa.,  and  in  politics  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Laurel 
Club,  of  which  he  was  president  in  1904-05,  of  the  Uniontown 
Country  Club,  formerly  its  secretary  and  treasurer,  and  of  the 
Elks,  Uniontown  Lodge,  Number  370,  of  which  he  was  the  first 
Exalted  Ruler. 

He  has  never  married. 


John  Norton  Pomeroy 

Professor  of  Law,  LTniversity  of  Illinois,  Urbana,  111. 
Residence,  916  West  Oregon  Street,  Urbana,  111. 

John  N.  Pomeroy  is  a  son  of  John  Norton  and  Ann  Rebecca 
(Carter)  Pomeroy,  who  were  married  in  1855,  and  had  three  other 
children:  Howard  Norton,  B.S.  University  of  Rochester  '77  (died 
July,  1884,  at  Mt.  Shasta,  Calif.),  Carter  Pitkin,  B.S.  University 
of  Rochester  '78,  and  Harriet  Howard  Pomeroy,  who  married 
W.  Oilman  Thompson,  '77  S.  John  Norton  Pomeroy,  the  father, 
was  born  April  12,  1828,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  died  February 
15,  1885,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif.  He  was  a  son  of  Enos  Pomeroy, 
a  lawyer  of  Rochester,  and  Sarah  Norton,  and  was  of  English 
descent.  The  first  of  the  name  to  settle  in  this  country  came  to 
Dorchester  in  1630.  President  Clap  of  Yale,  John  Bradford,  the 
first  governor  of  Plymouth,  Thomas  Hooker,  the  founder  of 
Connecticut,  and  Colonel  Willett,  the  first  mayor  of  New  York, 
are  among  the  ancestors  of  the  family.  Our  classmate's  father 
was  a  graduate  of  Hamilton  College  in  the  Class  of  1847  and 
received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  that  college  in  1865.  He  was 
a  professor  of  law  in  New  York  University  from  1864  to  1870  and 
in  the  University  of  California  from  1878  to  1885,  and  is  the 
author  of  numerous  standard  law  books.  Ann  Rebecca  Carter  was 
born  in  Savannah,  Ga.,  September  29,  1829,  and  died  in  San 
Francisco,  Calif.,  February  13,  1898.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Cyrus  and  Harriet  (Howard)  Carter  of  Savannah,  Ga.,  and  was 


850  BIOGRAPHIES 


of  colonial  and  English  ancestry,  and  a  descendant  of  Governor 
Hutchinson  of  Massachusetts. 

Pomeroy  was  born  in  South  Orange,  N.  J.,  May  7,  1866.  He 
lived  in  New  York  City  or  vicinity  until  1871  and  in  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  from  1871  to  1878,  and  then  removed  to  San  Francisco. 
He  was  prepared  at  the  Boys'  High  School  in  that  city,  and 
entered  the  University  of  California  in  the  Class  of  '86,  but  changed 
to  Yale,  joining  '87  at  the  beginning  of  the  course.  He  was  a 
Woolsey  scholar  throughout  his  college  course  and  received  two 
mathematical  premiums,  a  Berkeley  premium  for  Latin  composition, 
two  English  composition  prizes,  a  second  Winthrop  prize  in  Latin 
and  Greek,  philosophical  oration  appointments  in  Junior  and 
Senior  years,  and  two-year  honors  in  ancient  languages.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine,  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  and  was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu,  Pundit  Club,  Chi  Delta 
Theta,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

He  spent  one  year  as  a  graduate  student  in  political  science  at 
Yale  and  the  next  two  years  at  the  Columbia  Law  School  and 
School  of  Political  Science.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from 
Yale  in  1889  and  LL.B.  from  the  University  of  California  in 
1891.  From  1890  to  the  present,  about  half  of  his  time  has  been 
given  to  preparing  various  editions  of  law  books  written  by  his 
father  and  to  some  independent  legal  writing  and  editing.  He 
practiced  law  in  San  Francisco  from  1891  to  1898  and  held  some 
temporary  law  school  lectureships  in  Stanford  University  soon 
after  it  was  started,  1885-96,  in  Washington  and  Lee,  Lexington, 
Va.,  for  three  months  in  the  winter  of  1899-1900,  and  for  three 
months  following  at  Yale.  From  1901  to  1904  he  resided  in 
Oakland,  Calif.,  where  he  was  chiefly  occupied  in  legal  writing  for 
publication.  From  1904  to  1906  he  lived  in  San  Francisco  and 
from  1906  to  1908  he  was  in  the  East,  chiefly  in  Lexington,  Va., 
and  in  New  York.  In  1910-11  he  was  assistant  professor  and  from 
1911  to  date  professor  of  law  in  the  University  of  Illinois.  He 
writes : 

"In  the  summer  of  1890  I  took  a  two  months'  trip  in  Europe. 
I  have  crossed  the  continent  to  or  from  California  twenty-two  times 
(which  isn't  so  bad  for  an  impecunious  writer  and  professor)  and 
have  seen  in  passing  all  of  the  states  of  the  United  States  except 


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NORTON    POMEROY 


Idaho,  Montana,,  South  Dakota,  Oklahoma,  Alabama  and  Florida; 
as  well  as  Canada  from  Victoria,  B.  C.,  to  Quebec. 

"I  have  always  been  and  still  am  an  enthusiastic  pedestrian, 
though  never  guilty  of  any  'stunts.'  Probably  no  great  city  in  the 
world  offers  such  varied  inducements  to  the  'hiker'  as  little  old 
San  Francisco.  I  have  made  it  an  object  to  visit  on  foot  nearly 
every  quarter-section  within  twenty  miles  thereof,  and  can  affirm 
that  the  attractions  of  that  neighborhood  are  inexhaustible  (N.  B. 
everybody,  don't  forget  1915).  For  two  years  before  I  left  I 
'hiked'  nearly  every  Sunday  with  the  Sierra  Club,  a  congenial 
aggregation  of  fellow  cranks,  and  would  rank  this  joy  superior  to 
anything  I  have  had  of  late.  In  the  spring  of  1914  I  helped 
organize  a  walking  club  among  the  faculty  of  the  University,  and 
have  found  the  wooded  river  bottoms  and  bluffs  of  the  Prairie 
State  decidedly  worth  visiting.  This  joy  being  unavailable  for 
nine  months  of  the  year,  have  made  a  stab  at  tennis  and  bowling 
in  my  old  age. 


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"In  New  York  I  was  much  addicted  to  German  opera  and  other 
forms  of  orchestral  music;  but  my  chances  at  good  music  elsewhere 
have  been  limited.  My  general  reading,  I  am  sorry  to  say,  has 
been  very  desultory.  Since  coming  to  the  University  of  Illinois, 
being  moved  to  repent  of  my  laziness,  and  observing  that  a 
university  instructor  has  to  'hump'  himself  to  avoid  degenerating 
into  a  narrow-brained  specialist,  I  instigated  a  club  for  the  purpose 
of  reading  Greek  literature  (yep,  in  the  original),  which  turns  out 
to  be  a  great  success.  The  Greek  and  Latin  faculty  here  aren't 
such  'dead  ones'  as  they  used  to  be  at  Yale.  I  believe  that  some 
serious  intellectual  recreation  or  fad  like  that  pays  several  hundred 
per  cent  for  the  investment  of  time  and  energy;  wish  I  had  made 
the  discovery  sooner. 

"I  believe  I  am  the  only  one  of  '87's  big  bunch  of  lawyers  that 
has  gone  into  the  very  attractive  little  sub-profession  of  law  teach- 
ing. Only  the  few  of  us  who  went  to  the  Harvard  Law  School 
(the  only  really  live  one  in  1887-90)  can  have  any  idea  of  the 
fascination  of  this  job  of  teaching  law  by  up-to-date  methods. 
Instead  of  the  dreary  attempts  to  learn  page  after  page  of  dry 
abstractions,  we  have  a  running  debate  on  actual  cases — two  or 
three  dozen  bright  kids  all  anxious  to  talk  at  the  same  time,  and 
the  professor  stepping  very  lively  to  keep  from  being  run  over. 

"I  believe  I  am  the  only  '87  man,  too,  that  has  any  connection 
with  a  Middle  West  university.  I  like  the  job,  but  can't  say  that 
I  am  fond  of  the  country.  We  have  here  over  five  thousand  students 
and  a  faculty  pretty  nearly  as  numerous  as  the  student  body  of 
Yale  College  in  our  day;  and  an  income  equal  to  that  of  Harvard 
or  Columbia  and  far  larger  than  that  of  any  other  university.  Our 
faculty  is  a  remarkably  cosmopolitan  and  representative  body  of 
men,  chiefly  from  the  Atlantic  states,  many  from  Europe,  and  a 
considerable  number  from  the  South  and  Pacific  coast.  The  stu- 
dents are  mostly  from  the  farms  and  small  towns  of  Illinois  and 
neighboring  states — comparatively  few  from  Chicago.  They  are 
a  good-natured  lot,  and  the  standard  of  native  ability  is  pretty  high. 

"Besides  teaching  law,  have  done,  of  late,  a  good  deal  of  com- 
mittee work  for  the  university  at  large,  especially  as  a  member 
(1913  to  date)  of  the  Committee  on  Educational  Policy,  which 


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frames  rules  and  prepares  measures  on  all  questions  affecting  the 
university  as  a  whole:  such  things  as  entrance  requirements,  etc. 

"As  a  patriotic  Californian,  I  miss  in  this  community,  not  only 
the  scenery  and  climate,  but  the  energy  and  optimism  of  the  real 
West.  It  is  a  long  way  to  the  cheery  good  spirits  of  the  crowd  on 
good  old  Market  Street.  For  me,  the  real  United  States  lies  west 
of  the  100th  meridan  and  south  of  the  Ohio  and  Potomac.  But, 
according  to  the  present  outlook,  no  university  in  the  country  has 
quite  the  future  that  this  has,  with  its  income  equivalent  to  an 
endowment  of  sixty  million  dollars.  None  can  compare  with  its 
growth  in  numbers  and  quality  in  the  last  eight  years.  My  plans 
and  aims,  accordingly,  are  to  stay  by  it  and  share  as  fully  as  I 
can  in  its  innumerable  activities,  nine  months  of  each  year,  and  to 
spend  the  other  three  in  'God's  Own  Country.'  " 

Pomeroy  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church  and  in  politics 
is  a  Progressive,  but  says  he  feels  quite  reconciled  to  Wilson's 
election.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Political  Science  Asso- 
ciation, the  American  Association  for  Labor  Legislation,  the 
National  Conservation  Association,  the  American  Institute  of 
Criminology,  the  Sierra  Club  of  California,  the  Commonwealth 
Club  of  San  Francisco  and  the  University  Club  of  Champaign  and 
Urbana,  111. 

He  was  married  August  17,  1899,  to  Annie  Crevot,  daughter  of 
the  late  George  F.  and  Mary  Hay  (Stirling)  Barrington,  of 
Oakland,  Calif.  They  have  one  child: 

Harriet  Barrington,  born  March  1,  1903,  in  Oakland,  Calif. 


Thomas  Wyman  Porter 

President  of  the  Patent  Button  Company  of  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Residence,  Tuxedo  Park,  N.  Y. 

Thomas  W.  Porter  was  born  in  New  York  City,  November  3, 
1864.  He  was  prepared  at  the  Montclair  (N.  J.)  High  School. 
In  college  he  received  first  dispute  Junior  and  Senior  appointments, 
was  a  member  of  the  Senior  Prom  Committee,  the  University  Club 
and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

From  graduation  until  December,   1911,  he  was  connected  with 


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THOMAS    WYMAN    PORTER 


the  firm  of  Porter  Brothers  & 
Company,  manufacturers  and 
commission  merchants,  but  since 
that  date  he  has  been  the  New 
York  selling  agent  for  the  Pat- 
ent Button  Company  of  Water- 
bury,  Conn. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Union 
and  Tuxedo  clubs  and  the  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution. 

He  was  married  in  New  York 
City,  June  12,  1894-,  to  Lillian 
Mary,  daughter  of  Rodney  Corn- 
ing and  Anne  Allen  Ward,  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  They  lost  one 
child  in  infancy  and  have  one 
child  living: 

Katherine  Wyman,  born  Au- 
gust 29,  1895. 


Albert  Richard  Pritchard 

President  of  the  Pritchard  Stamping  Company,  999  East  Main  Street, 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Residence,  273  Barrington   Street,   Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Albert  R.  Pritchard  is  a  son  of  Alfred  Richard  and  Mary  Bur- 
roughs (Servoss)  Pritchard,  who  were  married  December  19,  1861, 
and  had  one  other  son,  Thomas  B.  Pritchard.  Alfred  Richard 
Pritchard,  the  father,  was  born  in  Bristol,  England,  November  9, 
1823,  and  died  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  March  26,  1876.  He  married 
as  his  first  wife  Jane  P.  Waters  of  New  York  City,  December  19, 
1843,  and  they  had  five  children.  He  was  a  manufacturer  of 
trunks  and  leather  goods  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.  Our  classmate's 
mother,  Mary  Burroughs  Servoss,  was  born  in  Garrettsville,  Ohio, 
March  18,  1838,  and  is  the  daughter  of  Archibald  and  Jane  (Bur- 
roughs) Servoss. 


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Pritchard  was  born  at  Rochester,  March  12,  1863,  and  has 
always  resided  there.  He  was  prepared  at  Exeter  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '87  at  Harvard,  but  changed  to  Yale,  joining  '87  in 
Sophomore  year.  In  college  he  received  a  second  colloquy  appoint- 
ment in  Junior  year,  was  on  the  Class  Baseball  Team  after  Fresh- 
man year  and  the  Class  Cup  Committee,  was  one  of  the  Class 
historians,  and  a  member  of  Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and 
Key. 

After  graduation  he  started  immediately  on  his  first  business 
venture  and  founded  the  Rochester  Stamping  Works,  a  concern  to 
manufacture  staple  household  metal  goods,  chiefly  cooking  utensils. 
This  firm  prospered  and  was  under  his  management  for  seventeen 
years.  He  then  sold  his  interest  and  established  the  Pritchard 
Strong  Company,  manufacturers  of  lanterns,  which  firm  name  was 
later  changed  to  the  Pritchard  Stamping  Company.  He  is  still 
connected  with  this  firm  as  its  president.  In  1909  he  assumed  the 


ALBERT    RICHARD    PRITCHARD 


356  BIOGRAPHIES 


general  management  of  the  Lisk  Manufacturing  Company,  Ltd., 
of  Canandaigua,  N.  Y.,  another  metal  ware  concern,  then  in  bank- 
ruptcy and  brought  it,  in  reorganized  form,  up  to  a  dividend-paying 
proposition.  This  impaired  his  health  temporarily,  but  he  has  so 
far  recovered  that  he  can  now  attend  to  business,  although  obliged 
to  resign  his  office  as  manager  of  the  Lisk  Manufacturing  Company. 
He  writes: 

"I  have  always  lived  in  Rochester  with  the  exception  of  a  trip 
to  England  during  the  summer  of  1912,  which  country  I  toured 
quite  thoroughly  by  automobile  and  secured  much  general  infor- 
mation concerning  our  renowned  ancestors  and  their  truly 
wonderful  little  country.  My  chief  recreation  (if  I  could  indulge 
in  any)  would  be  golf  and  horseback  riding  coupled  with  light 
gardening  and  poultry  farming.  I  aim  to  be  a  philanthropist  (in 
a  modest  way)  and  hope  to  write  a  few  books  along  industrial  lines 
or  children's  books,  if  I  can  ever  find  the  leisure  to  do  so.  If  I 
could  live  and  die  among  the  congenial  souls  of  grand  old  '87,  my 
greatest  ambition  would  be  satisfied.  They  are  the  best  lot  of 
men  I  have  ever  seen  together — a  noble  example  collectively  and 
individually  of  true  American  brain  and  brawn  and  heart  and  soul." 

Pritchard  is  a  Baptist  but  says:  "The  longer  I  live,  the  less  I 
believe  in  any  creed  or  sect.  A  good  manly  man,  God  believing  and 
respecting,  living  by  the  Golden  Rule  is  my  ideal,  be  he  Protestant 
or  Catholic."  In  politics  he  is  independent,  considering  desirable 
the  best  man  for  the  people  at  large,  chosen  from  one  or  all 
political  platforms  or  if  necessary  from  without  these  platforms. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  University  and  Yale  clubs  of  New  York 
and  of  the  University,  Genesee  Valley  and  Rochester  Country 
clubs  of  Rochester. 

He  was  married  April  23,  1889,  to  Harriet  E.,  daughter  of  the 
late  Nathaniel  D.  Hare,  of  New  York  City.  She  died  February 
5,  1907,  after  several  years'  semi-invalidism.  He  was  again 
married,  September  3,  1907,  at  Chicago,  to  Mrs.  Paulina  H. 
(Putnam)  Lyon,  daughter  of  William  and  Huldah  Putnam.  She 
studied  at  the  first  University  of  Chicago  and  was  the  founder  of 
the  Woman's  Athletic  Club  of  Chicago. 


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JOHN    ROGERS 


John  Rogers,  M.D. 

Physician,  102  East  Thirtieth  Street,  New  York  City 

John  Rogers  is  a  son  of  John  Rogers,,  the  sculptor,  and  Harriet 
Moore  (Francis)  Rogers,  who  were  married  April  26,  1865,  and 
had  six  other  children:  Charles  Francis,  Yale  '90S.,  Derby, 
Yale  '93,  Alexander  Parker,  Yale  '94  S.,  David  Francis,  Yale  '98, 
Katherine  Rebecca  and  Laura  Derby  Rogers  (died  November  1, 
1897,  in  New  York  City).  John  Rogers,  the  father,  was  born  in 
Boston,  Mass.,  October  30,  1829,  and  died  in  New  Canaan,  Conn., 
July  26,  1904.  He  was  the  son  of  John  and  Sarah  Ellen  (Derby) 
Rogers,  and  was  of  English  descent.  In  1860  he  began  modeling 
small  statuette  groups,  mostly  war  subjects,  while  the  war  lasted 
and  later  social  subjects,  which  are  known  as  "Rogers'  Groups"; 
numbers  of  these  have  been  reproduced  in  composition.  In  larger 
works  he  made  a  statue  of  General  Reynolds  for  Philadelphia,  and 
one  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  Harriet  Moore  Francis  was  born  in  New 


358  BIOGRAPHIES 


York  City,  August  18,  1841,  and  is  the  daughter  of  Charles  S. 
Francis,  a  New  York  publisher,  and  Catherine  R.  (Jewett)  Francis. 

Rogers  was  born  in  New  York  City,  February  19,  1866,  and  was 
prepared  at  H.  U.  King's  School,  Stamford,  Conn.  In  college  he 
received  second  dispute  appointments  in  both  Junior  and  Senior 
years,  rowed  on  the  University  Crew  in  1886  and  1887  (as  captain 
in  '87)  and  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  of  Skull 
and  Bones. 

He  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  from  Sheff  after  one  year's 
postgraduate  work  and  then  entered  Columbia,  graduating  from 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  1891.  After  serving 
on  the  staff  of  the  New  York  Hospital,  he  began  the  practice  of 
medicine  in  New  York,  where  he  has  continued  to  reside.  He  is 
professor  of  clinical  surgery  and  visiting  surgeon  at  Bellevue  and 
St.  Francis'  hospitals  and  a  member  of  several  medical  and  surgical 
societies.  He  has  published  a  number  of  articles  in  medical  journals 
and  encyclopedias  and  especially  distinguished  himself  by  the  dis- 
covery of  a  serum  treatment  for  Graves'  disease  or  exophthalmic 
goitre,  a  serum  for  the  cure  of  a  certain  distressing  form  of  arthritis, 
due  to  infection,  and  a  method  of  treating  the  tracheal  and 
laryngeal  stenosis,  usually  fatal,  which  is  very  apt  to  follow 
diphtheria.  These  are  in  wide  use  and  have  saved  many  lives.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  New  York. 

He  was  married  November  27,  1895,  to  Elizabeth  S.,  daughter 
of  Charles  A.  (Yale  '54)  and  Frances  S.  (Eaton)  White,  of  New 
Haven,  Conn.  They  have  had  three  children : 

John,  born  January  6,  1899,  in  New  York  City. 

Charles  White,  born  November  22,  1900,  in  New  York  City,  and 
died  April  26,  1903. 

Elizabeth  Selden,  born  January  19,  1907,  in  New  York  City. 


Benjamin  Romaine 

Lawyer,  822  Mills  Building,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 
Residence,  3281  Jackson  Street,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Benjamin    Romaine   is    a   son   of   Nicholas    Theodore   and    Mary 
Catharine   (Christie)    Romaine,  who  were  married  June    16,   1853, 


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359 


m 


BENJAMIN  ROMAINE 


and  had  three  other  children:  Theodore  (died  December  22,  I860, 
in  Leonia,  N.  J.),  Christie  (died  December  27,  1908,  in  Hacken- 
sack,  N.  J.),  and  William  Romaine.  Nicholas  Theodore  Romaine 
was  born  March  18,  1823,  in  New  York  City,  and  died  in  Hacken- 
sack,  N.  J.,  June  16,  1899.  He  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  A.  and 
Hannah  (Van  Winkle)  Romaine  and  a  descendant  of  Klaas 
(Kuypers)  Janse  Romeyn,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Holland 
in  1653  and  settled  first  on  Long  Island.  Our  classmate's  father 
was  a  commission  merchant  doing  business  in  New  York  City  until 
1 876,  when  he  went  to  San  Francisco  and  assumed  the  management 
of  the  firm  of  I.  S.  Van  Winkle  &  Company,  wholesale  importers 
of  iron,  steel,  hardware  and  coal.  He  retired  in  1897  and  returned 
East  to  look  after  his  private  interests.  Mary  Catharine  Christie 
was  born  October  6,  1827,  in  New  York  City,  and  died  in  San 
Francisco,  Calif.,  May  30,  1891.  She  was  a  daughter  of  David 
and  Anna  (Brinkerhoff)  Christie  and  was  descended  from  James 


860  BIOGRAPHIES 


Christie,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Scotland  about  1660  and 
settled  on  Long  Island. 

Romaine  was  born  in  Leonia,  N.  J.,  June  4,  1865.  In  the  fall 
of  1877,  he  removed  to  San  Francisco  with  his  parents  and  was 
prepared  at  the  Boys'  High  School  of  that  city.  In  college  he 
received  a  dissertation  appointment  in  Junior  year  and  a  first  dis- 
pute appointment  in  Senior  year  and  was  president  and  manager 
of  the  Second  Glee  Club. 

In  the  fall  of  1887  he  entered  Columbia  Law  School  and  grad- 
uated from  there  cum  laude  in  the  spring  of  1889,  at  which  time 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  State.  In  November  of 
that  year  he  went  to  San  Francisco  and  in  February  of  the  follow- 
ing year  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  California.  He  has  since 
practiced  law  in  that  city. 

He  is  a  member  and  secretary  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Calvary 
Presbyterian  Church  of  San  Francisco  and  is  president  of  the 
California  Bible  Society.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  though 
independent  and  strictly  non-partisan  in  voting,  with  the  idea  of 
voting  for  the  best  man  regardless  of  his  party  affiliations.  From 
1892  to  1900  he  was  a  member  of  the  Non-Partisan  Political  Club, 
an  organization  formed  in  San  Francisco  for  the  purpose  of 
endorsing,  nominating  and  electing  the  best  man  to  public  office. 
He  is  a  member,  formerly  treasurer,  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Associa- 
tion of  California,  of  the  Bohemian  and  Loring  (musical)  clubs  of 
San  Francisco.  His  greatest  interest  outside  of  his  profession  is 
music  and  his  chief  recreations  are  tramping  and  yachting. 

He  has  never  married. 


Edward  Tallmadge  Root 

Field  Secretary  of  the  Massachusetts   Federation  of  Churches,  53   Mount 
Vernon  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Residence,  55   Putnam  Street,   Somerville,  Mass. 

E.  Tallmadge  Root  is  a  son  of  Edward  Warren  and  Mary 
(Tallmadge)  Bunyan  Root,  who  were  married  June  3,  1862,  and 
had  one  other  son:  William  Scott  Root  (died  March  5,  1881,  in 
Dryden,  N.  Y.).  Edward  Warren  Root  was  born  March  15,  1820, 


GRADUATES 


861 


EDWARD  TALLMADGE   ROOT 


at  Conway,  Mass.,  and  died  April  26,  1882,  at  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1844  at  Yale,  studied  at  the  Yale 
Theological  Seminary  from  1846  to  1849,  received  the  degree  of 
M.A.  from  Yale  in  1847  and  was  a  tutor  in  the  College  from  1848 
to  1850.  He  was  a  Congregational  clergyman,  preaching  at  several 
places  in  New  England  and  also  in  the  Middle  West.  Mary 
(Tallmadge)  Bunyan  Root  was  born  February  7,  1823,  in  Glens 
Falls,  N.  Y.,  and  is  the  daughter  of  Samuel  Tallmadge.  She 
attended  the  Glens  Falls  and  Utica  academies  and  was  principal 
of  a  school  for  girls  in  Piqua,  Ohio,  from  1853  to  1860  and  dean 
of  the  Oxford  (Ohio)  Female  College  in  1860-62.  She  was  pre- 
viously married  and  had  one  son,  George  Bunyan,  who  died  in  1873, 
when  a  Freshman  at  Beloit  College. 

Root  was  born  at  Springfield,  Ohio,  March  19,  1865,  and  lived 
successively  in  Ohio,  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island,  Illinois  and  New 
York.  Having  been  prepared  at  the  Dryden  (N.  Y.)  High  School, 
he  entered  Union  College,  but  left  after  two  years  and  joined  Yale 


362  BIOGRAPHIES 


'87  at  the  beginning  of  Junior  year.     He  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  and  took  one-year  honors  in  philosophy.     He  writes: 

"I  entered  Yale  Divinity  School  the  fall  after  graduation. 
During  my  Seminary  vacations  I  supplied  Congregational  fields 
in  Vermont,  organizing  a  church  in  Eden  in  1890.  In  the  fall  of 
that  year,  I  became  the  assistant  of  Rev.  George  Alexander,  D.D., 
pastor  of  University  Place  Presbyterian  Church  in  New  York  City. 
Illness  prevented  the  acceptance  of  a  call  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  In 
the  fall  of  1901  I  accepted  a  call  to  the  Second  Congregational 
Church  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  a  church  of  working  people,  because 
of  my  interest  in  social  problems.  Sermons  on  Christian  socialism 
drew  followers  of  Edward  Bellamy  from  distant  sections  of  the 
city,  and  being  published  in  the  Journal  of  the  Knights  of  Labor, 
introduced  me  to  the  Brotherhood  of  the  Kingdom,  founded 
by  Revs.  Leighton  Williams,  Samuel  Zane  Batten  and  Walter 
Rauschenbusch,  whose  friendships  have  been  the  decisive  factors 
in  my  life.  Through  the  Brotherhood  I  also  met  Rev.  J.  Winthrop 
Hegeman,  founder  of  the  New  York  Federation  of  the  Churches. 
In  my  second  pastorate  at  Elmwood  Temple  Congregational 
Church,  Providence,  R.  I.,  1896  to  1904,  I  continued  my  social 
studies  and  preaching,  publishing  what  had  been  my  Seminary 
thesis,  as  the  'Profit  of  the  Many/  Fleming  Revell  Company.  Mr. 
Revell  himself  wrote  to  me  that  'the  reviews  had  been  so  cordial' 
that  the  book  'had  strengthened  the  firm's  lists.'  Articles  and 
verses  in  various  periodicals  and  'The  Redemption  of  Paradise 
Pond,  A  Story  of  Rhode  Island  Life,'  Remington  Press,  Providence, 
are  among  other  literary  efforts.  From  1906  to  1912,  I  edited  the 
Church  Messenger,  a  monthly  organ  of  the  Rhode  Island  Federa- 
tion of  Churches,  and  since  1910,  Facts  and  Factors,  a  quarterly 
of  the  Massachusetts  Federation,  mailed  to  every  Protestant  pastor 
in  the  state. 

"I  entered  the  ministry,  assuming  that  the  Church  holds  the  key 
to  the  social  problems;  but  experience  convinced  me  that  the 
churches  were  unable  to  act  effectively  because  divided.  Hence  I 
became  interested  in  the  movement  for  church  federation.  As 
moderator  of  the  Providence  Ministers'  Meeting,  in  1900,  I  secured 
Dr.  Hegeman  to  address  that  body  upon  the  subject.  This  led  to 
the  organization  of  the  Rhode  Island  Federation  in  November, 


GRADUATES  363 


1901,  and  my  becoming  its  field  secretary  in  September,  1903. 
In  1904,  the  Massachusetts  Federation  asked  for  part  of  my  time, 
and  I  resigned  the  pastorate  of  the  Elmwood  Temple,  and  since 
then  have  devoted  my  time  wholly  to  the  work  of  realizing  the 
ideals  of  the  two  federations,  consolidations  where  needed  and 
cooperation  everywhere.  The  larger  state  took  an  increasing  pro- 
portion of  my  time,  until  in  December,  1912,  I  closed  my  Rhode 
Island  work  and  in  1913  Massachusetts  took  my  full  time.  I 
was  a  member  of  the  conference  which  organized  the  preliminary 
National  Federation  of  Churches  in  1900,  and  of  the  delegated 
body  which  formed  the  Federal  Council  of  the  Churches  of  Christ 
in  America  in  1905,  and  a  Congregational  delegate  to  the  Council 
meetings  in  1908  and  1912." 

Root  has  also  been  active  in  temperance  work  and  identified  with 
organized  movements  in  behalf  of  good  citizenship  in  Baltimore 
and  Providence.  He  was  president  of  the  Rhode  Island  League 
for  Rural  Progress,  and  active  in  the  similar  Massachusetts  and 
New  England  Leagues.  In  politics  he  votes  independently. 

He  was  married  February  21,  1893,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to 
Georgiana,  daughter  of  Charles  G.  G.  Merrill,  B.A.  Yale  '61, 
M.D.  '63,  M.A.  '66,  a  surgeon  in  the  Civil  War,  and  Georgiana 
(Linsley)  Merrill,  and  a  granddaughter  of  David  Jackman 
Merrill,  Yale  1827.  They  have  two  sons: 

Edward,  born  January  4,  1895,  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  who  entered 
Amherst  College  in  September,  1913. 

Winthrop  Hegeman,  born  September  21,  1901,  in  Providence, 
R.  I. 


Grant  Isaac  Rosenzweig 

Lawyer,  1311  Commerce  Building,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Residence,  3740  Gillham  Road,  West,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Grant  I.  Rosenzweig  is  a  son  of  Louis  and  Minnie  (Newberger) 
Rosenzweig,  who  were  married  October  19,  1864,  and  had  three 
other  children:  Eta  (Rosenzweig)  Levy  (died  in  1907,  in 
Denver),  Harriet  (Rosenzweig)  Davidson  and  Bert  Rosenzweig. 
Louis  Rosenzweig  was  born  about  1844  in  Macon,  Ga.,  and  resides 


364 


BIOGRAPHIES 


GRANT  ISAAC  ROSENZWEIG 


in  Erie,,  Pa.,  where  he  has  practiced  law  for  many  years.  His 
ancestors  were  from  Bavaria,  Germany.  Minnie  Newberger  was 
born  in  Grant  County,,  Indiana,  about  1843,  and  her  ancestors  also 
came  from  Bavaria. 

Rosenzweig  was  born  at  Erie,  Pa.,  September  15,  1865.  He  was 
prepared  at  the  Erie  High  School  and  entered  '87  as  a  Sophomore. 
In  college  lie  received  a  dissertation  appointment  in  Junior  year,  a 
high  oration  Senior  appointment,  and  one-year  honors  in  political 
science,  history  and  law,  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club  and 
was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  he  went  to  Kansas  City,  and  after  due  appren- 
ticeship in  an  active  law  office  he  began  the  practice  of  law  for 
himself  and  is  still  practicing  in  the  same  city,  assisted  by  two 
practicing  lawyers.  His  travels  have  taken  him  to  Europe  and 
everywhere  in  the  United  States,  Mexico  and  Canada.  He  is  a 
Democrat  in  politics  and  in  religion  is  Jewish.  He  is  a  Mason  and 
a  member  of  the  Elks,  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen, 


GRADUATES 


365 


Knights  of  Pythias,  Odd  Fellows,  Progress  Club  and  Elm  Ridge 
Country   Club. 

He  was  married  October  9,   1893,  in  Kansas  City,  to  Mathilde 
Rosenberg. 


Charles  Otis  Scoville 

Rector  of  Trinity  Church,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Residence,  442  Temple  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Charles  O.  Scoville  is  a  son  of  James  Bidwell  and  Mary 
(Foster)  Scoville,  who  were  married  November  25,  1844,  and  had 
seven  other  children:  Elizabeth  Foster  (Scoville)  Brown  (died 
September  1,  1909),  Elizabeth,  Harriet  Emily,  Julia,  James 
Pearly,  Alice  and  Harry  Douglas  Scoville.  James  Bidwell 
Scoville  was  born  in  1814  in  Berlin,  Vt.,  and  died  in  November, 
1883,  in  Montpelier,  Vt.  He  was  descended  from  John  Scovil, 


CHARLES  OTIS  SCOVILLE 


866  BIOGRAPHIES 


who  came  to  this  country  from  Dorset,  England,  in  1660,  and  was 
the  great-great-grandson  of  Thomas  Willett,  the  first  English  mayor 
of  New  York  City,  and  of  Thomas  Hooker,  the  founder  of  Hart- 
ford. Mary  (Foster)  Scoville  was  born  in  1827  in  Conway,  N.  H., 
and  died  April  15,  1894,  in  Chicago,  111.  Her  ancestors  settled 
very  early  in  northern  New  Hampshire. 

Scoville  was  born  December  1,  1862,  in  Montpelier,  Vt.,  and 
was  prepared  at  the  high  school  of  that  place.  In  college  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club.  He  writes: 

"I  entered  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School  the  year  after  grad- 
uation and  graduated  in  1890.  I  was  rector  of  St.  James'  Church, 
Westville,  for  two  years  and  then  came  to  Trinity  Church,  New 
Haven,  as  curate  and  remained  in  that  capacity  until  1908,  when 
I  was  elected  rector.  Trinity  Church  is  one  of  the  largest  Episco- 
pal parishes  in  New  England  and  has  absorbed  all  my  time  and 
energy  for  all  these  years.  I  have  done  my  work  'indifferently' 
well  and  found  myself  happy  in  doing  it.  Quite  a  body  of  students 
attend  Trinity  Church  each  year  so  that  I  keep  in  touch  with  the 
life  of  the  University,  which  adds  much  to  the  pleasure  of  my 
work." 

Scoville  is  independent  in  politics,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Graduates  Club  of  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  June  1,  1892,  to  Lena  May,  daughter  of  Willis 
B.  and  Ida  N.  (Hotchkiss)  Isbell,  of  Westville,  Conn.  They  have 
one  child: 

Helen  May,  born  August  16,  1893,  in  New  Haven.  She  is  now 
attending  Wellesley  College. 


William  Albert  Setchell,  Ph.D. 

Professor  of  Botany,  University  of  California,  Berkeley,  Calif. 
Residence,  Berkeley,  Calif. 

William  A.  Setchell  is  a  son  of  George  Case  and  Mary  Ann 
(Davis)  Setchell,  who  were  married  April  3,  1861,  and  had  nine 
other  children:  Horace  Emerson,  Yale  '97  S.,  M.E.  '99,  John 
Ernest,  Yale  '05  S.,  two  sons  who  are  now  dead  and  five  daughters, 
one  of  whom  is  dead.  George  Case  Setchell  was  born  December 


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367 


WILLIAM  ALBERT  SETCHELL 


17,  1838,  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  and  is  of  Colonial  Dutch  and  English 
stock.  He  is  a  retired  wood-type  manufacturer  of  Providence, 
R.  I.  Mary  Ann  Davis  was  born  August  25,  1843,  in  Warminster, 
England,  and  is  also  living. 

Setchell  was  born  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  April  15,  1864.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  Norwich  and  he  was  prepared  at  the  Norwich 
Free  Academy.  In  college  he  received  a  high  oration  Junior 
and  a  philosophical  oration  Senior  appointment,  two-year  honors 
in  natural  and  physical  science  and  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

The  first  four  years  after  graduation  he  was  at  Harvard  as  a 
graduate  student  in  botany  and  zoology  and  assistant  in  biology. 
He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  Harvard  in  1888  and  Ph.D. 
from  there  two  years  later.  From  1891  to  1895  he  was  at  Yale, 
first  as  assistant  and  later  as  instructor  in  biology  in  Sheff.  In 
1895  he  was  appointed  assistant  professor  of  botany  at  Yale  but 
resigned  to  accept  the  professorship  of  botany  at  the  University 
of  California,  which  position  he  still  holds. 


368  BIOGRAPHIES 


He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  has  traveled  extensively  in 
Hawaii  and  Alaska,  and  in  1903-04  spent  fifteen  months  in  a 
tour  around  the  world.  In  1911  he  again  visited  Europe  for  special 
studies  in  botany.  He  is  director  of  the  Faculty  Club  of  the 
University  of  California,  a  member  and  former  president  of  the 
Holluschickie  Club  of  San  Francisco  and  a  member  of  the  Univer- 
sity, Sierra  and  Bohemian  clubs  of  San  Francisco,  the  Athenian 
Club  of  Oakland,  the  Authors'  Club  of  London,  England,  the 
American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  the  Wash- 
ington and  the  California  Academies  of  Science.  He  is  the  author 
of  a  large  number  of  papers  on  various  botanical  subjects  in 
different  journals,  proceedings  of  learned  societies,  government 
publications  and  also  of  one  book. 

He  has  never  married. 


Lewis  Seymour 

Lawyer  and  Broker,  706  Security  Mutual  Building,  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 
Residence,  25  North  Street,  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 

Lewis  Seymour  is  a  son  of  Lewis  and  Martha  Elizabeth 
(Burgess)  Seymour,  who  were  married  about  1851  and  had  three 
other  children:  May,  B.A.  Smith  College  '80,  Clara  L.  (Mrs. 
Harry  R.  Van  Voast),  Smith  College  ex-' 81,  and  Walter  Seymour. 
Lewis  Seymour,  the  father,  was  born  October  25,  1825,  in  Vestal, 
N.  Y.,  and  died  January  4,  1873,  at  Binghamton,  N.  Y.  He  was 
descended  from  Richard  Seymour,  who  settled  near  Windsor, 
Conn.,  about  1648,  coming  from  England.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Class  of  '43  at  Wesleyan  (Conn.)  College  but  left  in  the  middle 
of  his  Senior  year.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Binghamton 
in  1846  and  practiced  law  in  that  place  until  his  death,  in  the  firms 
of  Hotchkiss  &  Seymour  and  Hotchkiss,  Seymour  &  Balcom,  and 
the  last  nine  years,  alone.  Martha  Elizabeth  Burgess  was  born 
in  Vestal,  N.  Y.,  October  25,  1829,  and  died  February  10,  1905, 
in  Binghamton,  N.  Y.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Job  Layton  Burgess 
and  was  of  English  descent.  She  was  educated  at  Miss  Ingall's 
Seminary  and  was  especially  interested  in  painting  and  modern 
languages. 


GRADUATES 


LEWIS  SEYMOUR 


Seymour  was  born  at  Binghamton,  March  14,  1863,  and  his 
boyhood  was  spent  at  that  place.  He  was  prepared  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover.  In  college  he  received  a  second  dispute  Junior 
and  a  first  colloquy  Senior  appointment  and  was  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  and  of  Wolf's  Head. 

Having  studied  law  in  an  office  in  Binghamton,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1889,  and  has  since  practiced,  for  the  most  part,  in 
that  city.  In  1907  he  was  cashier  and  business  manager  for  a 
western  concern,  and  then  became  connected  with  the  accounting 
and  collecting  departments  of  the  Outing  Publishing  Company, 
located  at  Deposit,  N.  Y. 

He  enlisted  in  the  First  Regiment,  New  York  Infantry  Volun- 
teers, May  1,  1898,  and  was  mustered  in  as  regimental  quarter- 
master sergeant.  He  was  stationed  first  at  Camp  Black,  near 
Hempstead,  L.  I.,  then  on  Governor's  Island,  in  New  York  harbor, 
and  later  in  San  Francisco.  For  three  months  he  was  in  camp  in 
the  Hawaiian  Islands.  His  regiment  was  then  ordered  home,  and 


370  BIOGRAPHIES 


he  was  finally  mustered  out  at  Albany,  February  26,  1899.  Shortly 
after  this  he  enlisted  in  the  National  Guard  of  the  State  of  New 
York  and  soon  attained  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant.  In  May,  1905, 
he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain  and  adjutant  of  the  First 
Regiment,  New  York  Infantry,  which  position  he  now  holds. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  held  the  position  of  city  clerk 
of  Binghamton  from  1893  to  1897.  He  attends  the  Presbyterian 
church. 

He  was  married  May  20,  1908,  at  Wheaton,  111.,  to  Luda, 
daughter  of  Frederick  Chapin  and  Clara  (Latimer)  Wells. 


James  Rockwell  Sheffield 

Head  of  the  law  firm  of  Sheffield  &  Betts,  52  William  Street, 
New  York  City 

Residence,  45  East  Sixty-seventh  Street,  New  York  City 

James  R.  Sheffield  is  a  son  of  Frederick  William  Hotchkiss  and 
Sarah  (Kellogg)  Sheffield,  who  were  married  June  25,  1856,  and 
had  two  other  sons:  Charles  Amos  (died  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  in 
1867)  and  Henry  Hart  Sheffield  (died  in  West  Point  in  January, 
1880).  Frederick  William  Hotchkiss  Sheffield  was  born  in  Say- 
brook,  Conn.,  April  9,  1825,  and  died  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  April  2, 
1912.  He  was  of  English  descent,  his  ancestors  coming  to  this 
country  about  1645  and  settling  in  and  about  Saybrook,  Lyme  and 
New  Haven.  He  was  the  grandson  of  Rev.  Frederick  William 
Hotchkiss,  Yale  1778,  son  of  John  Hotchkiss,  Yale  1748,  pastor 
of  Christ  Congregational  Church  of  Saybrook,  the  great-great- 
grandson  of  Rev.  William  Hart,  Yale  1732,  also  pastor  of  Christ 
Congregational  Church  (these  two  clergymen  occupied  the  same 
pulpit  as  pastor  of  this  church  for  one  hundred  and  eight  con- 
secutive years),  and  the  great-great-great-grandson  of  John  Hart, 
Yale  1703.  He  was  educated  at  the  school  of  Professor  Porter, 
brother  of  President  Noah  Porter  of  Yale.  He  was  a  merchant 
of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  and  was  president  of  the  Merchants  National 
Bank  of  Dubuque,  Iowa,  and  a  director  and  officer  of  various 
financial  and  business  corporations  and  of  the  Iowa  Central  Rail- 
way Company.  Sarah  (Kellogg)  Sheffield,  our  classmate's  mother, 


GRADUATES 


871 


JAMES    ROCKWELL    SHEFFIELD 


was  born  May  13,  1832,  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  and  is  of  Scotch  and 
English  descent.  She  is  deeply  interested  in  church  and  philan- 
thropical  work. 

Sheffield  was  born  August  13,  1864,,  in  Dubuque,  Iowa.  The 
family  removed  to  Utica,  N.  Y.,  in  1876,  and  he  was  prepared  at 
Williston  Seminary.  In  college  he  received  a  second  premium 
for  English  composition,  a  third  prize  for  declamation  and  a  first 
colloquy  Senior  appointment,  was  Class  Orator  and  a  member  of 
the  Junior  Prom  Committee,  the  Yale  Glee  Club,  the  University 
Club,  Chi  Delta  Theta,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

The  year  following  graduation  he  spent  at  Harvard  Law  School, 
leaving  in  the  spring  to  become  private  secretary  to  United  States 
Senator  William  B.  Allison  of  Iowa,  and  to  serve  as  assistant  clerk 
on  both  the  finance  and  appropriation  committees  of  the  Senate. 
In  the  fall  of  1888  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Anderson  &  Rowland 
of  New  York  and  later  that  of  Sherman  Evarts,  Yale  '81.  After 
his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1889,  he  formed  a  partnership  with 


372  BIOGRAPHIES 


John  H.  Mann,  Yale  '83  S.  In  1893  he  joined  the  firm  of  Betts, 
Atterbury,  Hyde  &  Betts,  which  became  successively  Betts,  Hyde 
&  Betts;  Betts,  Betts,  Sheffield  &  Belts;  Betts,  Sheffield,  Bentley  & 
Betts  and  Sheffield,  Bentley  &  Betts.  He  is  also  a  director  and  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Marconi  Company  of 
America  and  a  director  and  treasurer  of  the  Yonkers  North  End 
Land  Company. 

In  November,  1893,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  New  York 
State  Assembly  from  the  Eleventh  Assembly  District  of  New 
York  City  and  served  one  term.  From  1895  to  1898  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Fire  Commissioners  of  New  York  City 
by  appointment  of  Mayor  Strong  and  the  last  two  years  of  his 
service  was  president  of  the  board.  In  1905  he  was  appointed  and 
confirmed,  without  his  consent,  as  a  member  of  the  State  Gas, 
Electricity  and  Water  Supply  Commission,  but  resigned  at  once. 
He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  the  Babies  Hospital 
and  the  East  Side  Settlement  of  New  York  City,  Dr.  Trudeau's 
Adirondack  Cottage  Sanitarium,  Chestnut  Hill  Academy  and 
various  smaller  charitable  and  educational  institutions. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  and  has  taken  active  part  in  the 
campaigns  of  the  last  fifteen  years,  making  speeches  through  New 
York  City  and  New  York  State.  In  1898  and  1900  he  accompanied 
Mr.  Roosevelt  on  stumping  tours  through  the  state;  in  1904  he 
accompanied  Governor  Higgins  in  the  same  way  and  in  1906 
Governor  Hughes.  He  was  identified  with  the  so-called  Good 
Government  movement  in  New  York  City  in  the  early  nineties, 
which  had  for  its  purpose  the  separation  of  municipal  from  state 
and  national  politics.  He  was  one  of  the  Judiciary  Nominators  in 
1906,  and  has  taken  part  in  other  efforts  to  effect  municipal  and 
judiciary  reform.  He  was  a  member  of  the  committee  on  finance 
of  the  Republican  National  Committee  in  1904,  was  treasurer  of 
the  Republican  County  Committee  and  has  held  various  other  offices 
in  party  organizations. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  of  the  Bar 
Association  of  New  York  City,  the  County  Bar  Association,  the 
Riding  Club,  Union  League,  Yale  Club,  of  which  he  has  been  a 
member  of  the  council  and  president,  University  Club,  of  which 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  council,  the  house  committee  and  the 


GRADUATES  373 


committee  on  admission,  the  Republican  Club,  of  which  he  is  now 
president,  and  various  other  political  and  educational  clubs  of  New 
York  City  and  the  Harvard  Law  School  Association,  of  which  he 
is  a  member  of  the  executive  committee.  He  has  visited  Europe 
five  times,  four  times  for  travel  and  recreation  and  once  on  business ; 
Cuba,  seven  times,  and  has  traveled  throughout  the  United  States 
and  Canada.  His  principal  recreations  are  travel,  reading,  certain 
out-of-door  sports  and  "everything  and  anything  pertaining  to  Yale 
and  Yale  interests."  He  has  contributed  to  magazines  and  publi- 
cations from  time  to  time  and  has  had  a  good  many  speeches 
published  in  the  newspapers. 

He  was  married  November  2,  1898,  to  Edith  Tod  of  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Keyes  (Little)  Tod  and  grand- 
daughter of  Governor  David  Tod,  the  war  governor  of  that  state. 
They  have  one  son: 

Frederick,  born  February  26,  1902. 


Walter  Bradley  Sheppard 

Retired 
Residence,  Fort  Collins,  Colo. 

Walter  B.  Sheppard  is  a  son  of  George  Ashbridge  and  Antoinette 
(Bradley)  Sheppard,  who  were  married  May  14,  1863.  George 
Ashbridge  Sheppard  was  born  September  11,  1802,  in  Yates 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  died  February  25,  1874,  in  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y. 
He  was  the  son  of  Morris  Fletcher  Sheppard,  who  was  the  first 
representative  of  Yates  County  in  the  state  legislature,  and  nephew 
of  Moses  Sheppard,  a  Baltimore  merchant,  who  bequeathed  the 
money  to  found  the  hospital  which  bears  his  name,  in  that  city. 
(The  first  American  Sheppard  was  William,  an  Englishman.,  who 
settled  on  the  Delaware,  near  Philadelphia,  about  1680.)  He  was 
president,  treasurer  and  trustee  of  Penn  Yan  Free  Academy,  super- 
visor of  Benton  township,  and  lieutenant-colonel  of  a  militia  regi- 
ment of  artillery.  He  was  previously  married  to  Jane  A.  Black, 
on  October  1,  1844,  and  to  Anna  Pettibone,  on  March  9,  1850,  and 
had  three  children  by  the  latter:  George  Scott,  B.S.  Cornell  '74, 
LL.B.  Columbia  '77,  Rachel  (died  in  1872),  and  Anna  Elizabeth 


374  BIOGRAPHIES 


(Sheppard)  Wey,  who  studied  at  Vassar.  Our  classmate's  mother, 
Antoinette  Bradley,  was  born  November  20,  1836,  in  Northville, 
Cayuga  County,  N.  Y.,  and  died  July  26,  1872,  in  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Judge  Walter  Goodyear  and  Henrietta 
(Todd)  Bradley,  an  aunt  of  Professor  David  P.  Todd,  the  astrono- 
mer. The  first  of  that  name  to  settle  in  America  was  William  Brad- 
ley of  Yorkshire,  who  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  in  the  New  Haven 
Colony  in  1644  and  was  deputy  from  the  colony  to  the  general 
assembly  for  six  terms.  Abraham,  the  next  in  descent,  was  deputy 
for  twelve  terms  and  deacon  of  the  First  Church  for  twenty-two 
years;  the  church  still  has  a  piece  of  silver  plate  bequeathed  by 
him.  Jonathan  Edwards,  Yale  1720,  Thomas  Yale,  father  of 
Elihu,  Stephen  Goodyear,  who  was  deputy  governor  of  the  colony 
for  sixteen  years,  following  1641,  and  James  Pierpont,  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  College,  were  also  ancestors.  The  maternal  line  is 
descended  from  Christopher  Todd,  of  Yorkshire,  who  arrived  in 
New  Haven,  in  1638,  and  who  ran  the  colony's  first  mill  on  the 
site  of  and  with  the  waterpower  afterward  used  by  the  Winchester 
Fire  Arms  Company. 

Sheppard  was  born  in  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y.,  November  22,  1865, 
and  was  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary.  In  college  he  received 
a  first  colloquy  Junior  and  a  second  dispute  Senior  appointment 
and  was  a  member  of  the  University  Nine  in  1885-86,  of  Gamma 
Nu,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

He  writes:  "In  college  it  was  my  intention  to  study  medicine. 
Circumstances  then  unforeseen  seemed  afterward  to  impose  on  me 
the  duty  of  laying  aside  that  project,  and  of  remaining  some  years 
at  least  in  my  home  town.  At  this  distance,  the  underlying  motive 
commands  my  respect,  but  it  was  perhaps  a  mistaken  decision. 

"Manufacturing  was  my  first  venture.  It  was  not  to  my  bent. 
Successful  handling  of  modern  labor  conditions  requires  that  a  man 
shall  be  a  good  deal  of  a  meat-axe.  The  task  of  holding  unwilling 
noses  on  the  grindstone  of  obligation  does  not  appeal  to  me. 

"In  newspaper  work,  at  first  undertaken  in  a  small  way,  I  struck 
another  gait.  Heaven  itself  could  hold  no  greater  joy  than  a  big 
editorial  job,  without  a  string  to  it.  And  that  was  my  ambition; 
for  it  is  my  strong  conviction  that  an  editor  with  ideals  and  nerve 
can  do  more  for  his  community  than  all  the  preachers  in  it.  Yellow 


GRADUATES 


375 


journalism  is   a   crime   against  civilization;   its   patrons   are   acces- 
sories after  the  fact. 

"But  ambition  went  glimmering  when,  in  1898,  pulmonary  tuber- 
culosis put  in  appearance.  Its  advent  was  purely  accidental; 
influenza,  overwork  and  unsus- 
pected proximity  to  infection 
tell  the  story.  Nearly  three 
years  were  spent  out  of  doors 
'chasing  a  cure/  first  in  the 
Adirondacks,  and  then  in  the 
Rockies.  Enforced  idleness  cut 
short  my  earning  power  and 
compelled  me  to  jettison  prop- 
erty which,  if  retained  in  pos- 
session, would  have  made  me 
a  comparatively  wealthy  man. 
But  this  was  part  of  the  game. 
It  is  great  luck  to  be  alive.  Of 
the  many,  many  'lungers'  I  con- 
sorted with  that  first  winter  in 
Denver,  I,  even  I  only,  am  left. 

"Having  put  out  the  fire  in 
the  bellows,  I  embarked  again 
into  newspaper  work;  in  Colo- 
rado for  obvious  reasons,  and 
again  in  a  small  way,  perforce. 

Five  years  of  excessively  hard  work,  under  singularly  adverse  con- 
ditions, put  me  out  of  the  game  to  stay  out.     It  is  a  mistake  for 
anyone  out  of  whom  'T.  B.'  has  taken  a  fall  to  try  so  strenuous  a 
life  as  newspaper  work  entails,  but  it  was  the  one  business  that  I 
knew  best  and  work  was  compulsory. 

"I  envy  no  man  anything  but  his  ability  to  work.  If  some  power 
could  grant  me  the  fulfilment  of  one  wish  it  would  be  only  that  I 
might  be  able  to  work  eighteen  hours  a  day  and  die  in  harness. 
The  idle  man,  poor  or  rich,  has  scarcely  any  excuse  for  living. 

"It  is  not  that  I  have  especially  wanted  to  be  famous;  the 
editor's  work  is  impersonal  and,  what  is  worse,  ephemeral.  The 
best  of  it  is  flat,  stale  and  unprofitable  a  few  days  or  weeks  after 


WALTER    BRADLEY   SHEPPARD 


376  BIOGRAPHIES 


it  goes  into  type.  And  while  I  have  done  a  great  deal  of  miscel- 
laneous writing  for  various  publications,  practically  none  of  it 
has  had  my  name  appended. 

"It  isn't  that  I  am  greedy  of  money.  The  pay  of  the  best  edi- 
torial jobs  is  scanty  enough  and  the  mere  making  of  money  is 
about  the  poorest  use  to  which  a  man  can  put  his  life.  Not  but 
what  every  man  owes  it  to  society  and  to  his  friends  to  gain  an 
honorable  competence  if  he  can,  but  certainly  mere  money  grub- 
bing, no  matter  how  richly  rewarded,  does  not  constitute  success. 
Indeed,  in  most  cases,  the  larger  the  pile,  the  more  abject  the 
failure,  in  that  the  nobler  impulses  have  been  stifled,  the  char- 
acter dwarfed  and  twisted,  and  little  or  nothing  or  worse  than 
nothing  contributed  to  the  race.  It  is  not  in  my  mind  to  declaim 
against  wealth  as  such.  Some  of  those  who  have  labored  most 
assiduously  for  the  advancement  of  mankind  have  heaped  up  riches 
as  a  concomitant.  And  the  creation  of  wealth  which  might  otherwise 
not  have  existed  is  of  utility.  Almost  the  only  objection  that  can 
be  urged  to  the  concentration  of  capital  is  that  oftentimes  the  reward 
to  its  possessors  is  incommensurable  with  the  service  they  render. 
Anyhow,  the  evil,  if  such  it  be,  is  irremediable. 

"Nor  is  it  with  me  a  desire  to  acquire  merit  with  an  angry  God, 
for,  I  have  no  belief  in  any  deity  and  less,  if  possible,  in  the  existence 
of  my  soul.  If  I  had  a  soul  it  would  not  be  worth  saving.  All  theolo- 
gies look  alike  to  me,  differing  only  in  point  of  absurdity — anesthet- 
ics, as  Huxley  called  them,  for  those  who  find  the  pains  of  life  too 
hard  to  bear. 

"But  what  I  do  believe  is  that  success  in  life  can  be  won  nowhere 
and  nohow  but  in  service;  the  editorial  page  of  a  big  daily  affords 
for  this  a  limitless  field.  In  saying  this,  I  am  keenly  alive  to  the 
fact  that  much  of  what  masquerades  nowadays  as  service  is  sheer 
impertinence,  consisting  largely  of  attempts  by  misguided  enthusi- 
asts to  impose  on  other  people  customs  of  life  and  habits  of  thought 
not  necessarily  belter  than  those  sought  to  be  supplanted. 

"I  am  under  no  illusions  as  to  what  one  man  may  accomplish. 
The  progress  of  the  race  is  a  matter  of  biological  evolution,  governed 
by  laws  unchanging  and  unchangeable.  Man's  years  upon  the  earth 
are  to  be  reckoned  certainly  by  hundreds  of  thousands  and  perhaps 
by  millions.  In  his  development,  the  conscious  achievements  of  few 


GRADUATES  377 


individuals  have  availed  anything.  The  application  of  steam,  of 
electricity  and  such  like,  may  deflect  the  vast  current  somewhat  by 
working  actual  changes  in  man's  environment,  but  except  in  some 
such  manner,  the  labors  of  the  best  and  wisest  make  little  or  no 
impress. 

"It  behooves  us  none  the  less  to  do  what  we  can  to  make  the 
crooked  places  straight,  to  soften  the  asperities  of  inexorable  nature 
and  to  bind  up  the  wounds  she  deals — but  without  hope  of  reward 
here  or  hereafter.  It  is  at  first  sight  a  comfortless  doctrine,  but 
actually  a  higher  ethical  conception,  it  seems  to  me,  than  that  con- 
tained in  any  of  the  theologies,  all  of  which  are  in  the  ultimate 
bottomed  on  the  idea  of  sauve  qui  pent. 

"The  stock  remedies  for  nature's  sea  of  troubles  are  purely 
empirical.  Socialism  is  a  chimera;  in  its  final  analysis,  progress- 
ivism  is  a  chip  off  the  same  block.  All  such  squint  in  the  same 
direction,  and  are  hastening  the  time  when  the  jangling  between  the 
Haves  and  Have-nots,  about  what  is  an  equitable  division  of  the 
product  of  industry,  will  bid  fair  to  blot  out  the  higher  forms  of 
civilization  from  the  earth.  Most  of  the  present  ferment  springs 
from  the  latent  notion  that  the  distribution  as  now  made  is  unfair, 
and  that  by  taking  thought,  society  might  improve  it.  But  no  man 
has  yet  given  a  hint  of  any  better  plan  that  would  work.  An  angel 
in  a  chariot  of  fire  might  satisfy  every  claimant,  but  in  default  of 
the  angel,  humanity  must  manage  to  shuffle  along  with  the  methods 
apparently  ordained  by  the  laws  of  its  being,  which  allot  to  the 
landowner,  the  capitalist,  the  captain  of  industry  and  the  laborer, 
the  least  that  each  will  take,  that  minimum  being  determined  by 
competition. 

"Poverty,  disease,  crime,  will  cease  to  be,  if  ever,  when  the  race 
is  biologically  different  from  what  it  is  now.  The  manner  in  which 
society  has  organized  itself  and  its  industries,  and  such  conventions 
as  property,  are  not  haphazard,  but  the  necessary  outcome  of  ante- 
cedent cause.  Legal  enactments  may  temper  the  wind  somewhat  to 
shorn  lambs,  but  they  can  never  restore  lost  fleece,  nor  make  the  wool 
grow  where  it  never  was  meant  to  be. 

"Offense  must  needs  be.  It  is  chiefly  through  the  ape  and  tiger 
in  him  that  man  has  mounted.  Every  attempt  since  the  dawn  of 
history  to  restrain  the  propensities  thus  indicated,  so  far  as  they 


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manifest  themselves  in  the  handling  of  such  commodities  as  labor 
and  capital,  have  failed  more  or  less  completely.  The  law  of  the 
survival  of  the  fittest  will  not  be  gainsaid  in  the  domain  of  economics 
any  more  than  in  that  of  biology.  In  grappling  with  the  puzzles 
which  steam  and  the  individualization  of  labor  have  obtruded  upon 
him,  man  is  like  a  little  child  groping  in  the  dark.  There  is  no 
certain  solution. 

"To  Darwin,  also  a  pessimist,  who  saw  in  the  universe  so  much 
suffering  he  could  not  believe  that  a  beneficent  being  had  created  it 
and  who  thought  that  the  human  race  could  not  attain  to  the  end  and 
essence  of  things,  the  only  conclusion  was  that  'man  can  do  his  duty.' 
If  only  man  could  always  know  what  that  is. 

"The  exploitation  of  women  and  children  by  conscienceless  entre- 
preneurs may  be  somewhat  abated;  a  better  knowledge  of  sanita- 
tion and  prophylaxis  may  prevent  much  suffering;  'big  business'  may 
to  some  extent  be  divorced  from  politics  and  the  virtual  sale  of  legis- 
lation be  stopped;  the  protective  tariff,  that  infernal  agency  for  the 
oppression  of  the  poor,  may  some  day  be  abolished.  No  one  can 
say  with  certainty  to  what  extent  the  conditions  which  excite  our 
sympathy  may  be  ameliorated.  But  character,  which  is  what  a  man 
is  at  heart,  depends  upon  the  type-units  of  his  racial  germ  plasm, 
which  he  is  all  but  powerless  to  change  but  for  the  worse.  Deport- 
ment may  be  taught,  but  not  character,  and  what  can  be  done  to 
save  any  individual  from  having  his  teeth  set  on  edge  because  he  or 
his  fathers  have  eaten  a  sour  grape  is  precious  little. 

"The  attempt  is  doubtless  worth  making,  even  if  its  influence,  like 
that  of  prayer,  is  subjective  merely,  but  philanthropy  must  be 
directed  with  almost  godlike  wisdom  not  to  do  more  harm  than 
good,  while  loose  talk  about  'social  justice'  and  all  gibberish  of  that 
sort  encourage  hopes  that  can  never  be  realized,  whereby  also  is  a 
sowing  of  dragon's  teeth. 

"The  truth  is,  the  things  which  offend  our  sensibilities  are  for 
the  most  part  the  penalties  which  nature  exacts  from  incompetence 
and  viciousness,  perhaps  in  an  attempt  to  eliminate  the  unfit.  At 
times  the  punishment  may  appear  unduly  severe,  but  if  humanity 
could  altogether  escape  Nemesis  the  world  might  come  speedily  to 
be  populated  with  fools  and  worse. 

"In  this  country,  extravagant  spending,  public  and  private;  the 


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useless  destruction  of  capital  involved  in  war  preparation;  the 
nation's  drink  bill;  the  protective  tariff — all  have  begun  to  weigh 
heavily,  despite  our  wealth  of  natural  resource.  Instead  of  sug- 
gesting sound  legislation  and  a  return  to  such  homely  virtues  as 
thrift  and  self-denial,  the  situation  provides  cheap  demagogues  and 
political  mountebanks  like  Roosevelt  with  their  opportunity.  It 
has  always  been  so  and  doubtless  always  will  be.  Every  form  of 
government  that  man  has  yet  devised  and  every  civilization  to  which 
he  has  attained  seem  to  resemble  a  living  cell  in  that  each  contains 
within  itself,  from  its  very  inception,  the  seeds  of  decay  and  death. 
The  ills  to  which  flesh  is  heir  will  not  be  abolished  by  fiat,  and 
every  additional  burden  which  misguided  altruism  lays  upon  the 
State  speeds  the  day  which  appears  sure  to  dawn  for  every  gov- 
ernment when  it  must  break  down  of  its  own  weight. 

"Every  forward-looking  man  can  at  least  see  to  it  that  he  is  not 
among  those  by  whom  offense  cometh;  woe  unto  them.  That  is 
not  enough,  however.  That  was  an  unprofitable  servant  who  could 
give  no  better  account  of  his  stewardship  than  good  intentions  and 
mere  passivity,  and  a  particularly  unpleasant  notoriety  has  always 
attached  to  him. 

"College  men  of  all  others  owe  it  to  be  of  use.  Service  is  the 
only  touchstone.  Success  can  be  measured  in  terms  of  no  other 
commodity  whatsoever.  It  is  not  power,  nor  wealth,  nor  display, 
but  service  that  is  the  true  criterion.  To  have  made  humanity 
better,  the  wiser,  the  happier,  and,  perhaps,  the  richer,  is  the  one 
title  to  honor.  So  far  as  such  service  is  concerned,  only  a  Pharisee 
could  vaunt  himself,  and  my  annals  are  short  and  simple.  In  this 
matter  of  results  that  appear  meager,  there  will  be  entered  no 
plea  in  abatement — de  non  apparentibus  et  de  non  existentibus 
ratio  eadem;  let  judgment  be  entered  accordingly. 

"Moses  might  well  have  prefaced  his  decalogue  with  this:  'Keep 
in  health;  lacking  that,  man  is  of  little  worth  to  himself  or  any- 
body else.'  Nature  plays  no  favorites.  The  luckless  wight  who 
walks  off  East  River  bridge  need  not  expect  the  attractive  force  of 
gravity  to  be  intermitted  in  his  behalf.  And  the  laws  which  govern 
anaphylaxis  and  germ  invasions  are  doubtless  as  immutable  as  any 
other.  Overwork  was  my  besetting  sin;  the  punishment  inflicted  is 
not  to  my  liking,  but  I  should  be  the  last  to  say  it  is  not  just.  In 


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any  case,  there  is  no  use  growling,  albeit  it  must  be  confessed  that 
it  is  woefully  hard  to  be  philosophical  at  sight  of  the  doings  of 
other  men,  whose  equipment  is  little  or  no  better,  perhaps,  than 
mine  except  in  the  single  matter  of  health. 

"Apologia  pro  vita  mea?  Not  any;  that  is  a  sickly  business. 
Rather  (as  Las  Casas  said  of  the  Indian  heretics  he  burned),  pour 
encourager  les  autres!" 

Sheppard  was  married  in  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y.,  on  January  29,  1889, 
to  Margaret  Reliance,  daughter  of  George  Henry  Townsend  Lap- 
ham,  a  banker;  descendant  of  John  Lapham  (born  in  1625;  came 
to  Providence  from  Devonshire;  served  as  deputy  to  the  General 
Assembly).  Mrs.  Sheppard's  mother  was  Margaret  Pryor  Castner, 
daughter  of  Ezekiel  and  Elizabeth  (Kichlein)  Castner  (whose 
grandfather,  Colonel  Peter  Kichlein,  commanded  a  battalion  at 
the  battle  of  Long  Island). 


John  Calhoun  Simonds 

President  of  the  First   National  Bank,  Charleston,  S.   C. 
Residence,  39  East  Battery  Street,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

John  C.  Simonds  is  a  son  of  Andrew  and  Sarah  Martin  (Cal- 
houn) Simonds,  who  were  married  in  1860.  Andrew  Simonds  (born 
in  Abbeville,  S.  C.,  in  1821,  and  died  in  Charleston,  in  1889)  was 
a  son  of  Dr.  Joseph  Webb  Simonds  and  Jane  Hamilton  (Calhoun) 
Simonds,  and  his  wife,  Sarah  (born  in  Abbeville,  in  1839,  and  died 
in  1908),  was  a  daughter  of  John  Alfred  Calhoun  and  great-grand- 
daughter of  Patrick.  Thus,  on  both  sides,  our  classmate  is  de- 
scended from  the  family  of  the  statesman,  John  C.  Calhoun,  Yale 
1804,  being  a  fifth  cousin  on  the  paternal  side  and  a  great-great- 
nephew  on  the  maternal. 

Simonds  was  born  at  Abbeville,  S.  C.,  October  23,  1863.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Charleston,  and  he  was  prepared  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Exeter.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon. 

Since  shortly  after  graduation  he  has  been  connected  with  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Charleston,  for  many  years  as  cashier, 
but  now  as  president. 


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JOHN   CALHOUX   SIMONDS 

He  attends  the  Episcopal  church  and  in  politics  is  a  Democrat. 

He  was  married  March  8,  1892,  to  Elizabeth  Mary  Orr,  daughter 
of  Thomas  P.  and  Annie  E.  Branch,  of  Augusta,  Ga.  They  have 
two  children: 

Elizabeth  Mary  Branch,  born  June  2,  1895. 

John  Calhoun,  Jr.,  born  October  5,  1897. 


Frank  Clifton  Smith,  Ph.D. 

Residence,  R.  F.  D.,  Eagleville,  Conn. 

Frank  C.  Smith  is  a  son  of  Emory  Boutelle  and  Julia  E.  (Royce) 
Smith,  who  were  married  February  1,  1852.  Emory  B.  Smith  was 
born  April  21,  1810,  in  West  Boylston,  Mass.,  and  died  September 
24,  1891,  in  Gurleyville,  Conn.  He  was  of  English  parentage. 
His  life  was  devoted  chiefly  to  the  business  of  manufacturing  sewing 
silks.  He  served  as  representative  in  the  state  legislature,  and 


BIOGRAPHIES 


FRANK    CLIFTOX    SMITH 


held  several  town  offices.  November  19,  1840,  he  was  married  to 
Arvilla  T.  Royce,  who  died  February  15,,  1851,  and  left  him  a 
son  and  a  daughter;  the  former,  Charles  Emory  Smith,  LL.D., 
graduate  of  Union  College,  editor-in-chief  of  the  Philadelphia 
Press,  minister  to  Russia,  1890-92,  postmaster  general,  1898-1901 
(died  in  Philadelphia,  January  19,  1908);  the  latter,  Abbie  C. 
(Smith)  Conant,  of  Gurleyville,  Conn.  After  the  death  of  his 
wife  he  married  her  sister,  Julia  E.,  who  was  born  February  24, 
1828,  in  Gurleyville,  Conn.,  and  died  there  November  29,  1909. 
By  this  union  there  were  two  sons,  Edward  L.,  who  succeeds  his 
father  in  the  manufacture  of  silk,  and  Frank  Clifton  Smith. 

Smith  was  born  April  1,  1862,  in  Albany,  N.  Y.  He  was  pre- 
pared at  the  Albany  High  School  and  at  the  Natchaug  High  School, 
Willimantic,  Conn.,  and  entered  Yale  in  the  Class  of  '85,  joining 
'87  in  the  second  term  of  Freshman  year.  In  college  he  received 
a  first  dispute  Junior  and  a  dissertation  Senior  appointment. 

From   graduation  till  the   fall   of    1904   he   was   connected  with 


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the  Philadelphia  Press  as  law  reporter  and  commercial  editor.  He 
spent  the  year  1904-05  in  postgraduate  work  at  Harvard  Univer- 
sity and  in  1905-06  he  was  again  connected  with  the  Philadelphia 
Press,  doing  the  work  of  the  department  of  education.  In  the  fall 
of  1896  he  went  abroad,  spending  the  time  in  travel  and  study,  and 
receiving  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  from  the  University  of  Leipzig, 
December  11,  1903.  In  1904  he  returned  and  became  instructor 
in  modern  languages  in  Bellefonte  Academy,  Bellefonte,  Pa.,  the 
following  year  becoming  professor  of  modern  languages  in  Frank- 
lin and  Marshall  College,  Lancaster,  Pa.  Two  years  later  he 
resigned  to  look  after  business  interests  in  Gurleyville,  Conn. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  and  in  politics  is  a  Repub- 
lican. He  was  formerly  secretary  of  the  Mermaid  Club  of  Belle- 
fonte, Pa.,  and  a  member  of  the  Clio,  Lancaster,  Pa.,  both  literary 
societies,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Modern  Language  Association  of 
America. 

He  was  married  September  5,  1888,  to  Etta  Marie,  daughter  of 
Sanford  and  Wealthy  (Ross)  Swift,  of  Abington,  Conn.  Mrs. 
Smith  died  January  1,  1894,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


Paul  Spencer,  M.E. 

Electrical  Engineer,  with  the  United  Gas  Improvement  Company, 
1401  Arch  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Residence,  Glenn  Road,  Ardmore,  Pa. 

Paul  Spencer  is  a  son  of  George  Oilman  and  Caroline  (Arnold) 
Spencer,  who  were  married  July  7,  1853,  and  had  three  other  chil- 
dren: Julia  (died  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in  1907),  Frederick  Oilman, 
and  Eleanor  (died  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in  1903).  George  Oilman 
Spencer  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  September  13,  1812,  and 
died  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in  1885.  He  was  a  son  of  Stephen  and 
Jerusha  (Oilman)  Spencer,  both  of  Hartford.  The  Spencers  came 
from  England,  settling  in  Lynn,  Mass.,  in  1632,  and  moving  to 
Hartford  about  1635.  Our  classmate's  father  was  a  graduate  of 
Yale  in  the  Class  of  1834,  and  received  an  M.A.  in  1837.  After 
graduation  he  went  into  business  with  his  father  in  Hartford, 


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removing  to  New  York  City  in  1841,  where  he  went  into  the  whole- 
sale grocery  business.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Woodruff,  Spencer  &  Stout.  Caroline  Arnold  was 
born  June  13,  1832,  and  died  January  10,  1904,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Smith  W.  and  Maria  (Cross)  Arnold,  both 
of  whom  were  of  English  descent. 

Spencer  was  born  at  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  March  19,  1866.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Brooklyn,  and  he  was  prepared  at  the  Brook- 
lyn Polytechnic  Institute.  In  college  he  received  dissertation 
appointments  in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years,  took  one-year  honors 
in  natural  and  physical  sciences,  and  was  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  spent  two  years  in  business  in  New  York. 
He  then  entered  the  Stevens  Institute  of  Technology,  graduating 
from  there  with  the  degree  of  M.E.  in  1891.  Since  that  time  he  has 
been  continually  employed  in  the  electrical  engineering  business, 
being  connected  successively  with  the  Field  Engineering  Company  of 
New  York  City,  the  Stanley  Electrical  Manufacturing  Company 
of  Pittsfield,  the  New  York  Office  of  the  last  named  firm,  the 
Peoples  Light  &  Power  Company  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  and  the  United 
Gas  Improvement  Company,  first  as  inspector  of  electric  plants 
and  at  the  present  time  as  electrical  engineer.  He  writes: 

"My  connection  with  the  United  Gas  Improvement  Company 
has  kept  me  so  continuously  employed  that  I  have  had  little  time  for 
traveling  for  pleasure,  though  in  connection  with  my  business 
duties  I  have  covered  a  good  part  of  the  East  and  Middle  West,  in 
visiting  the  various  electrical  companies  operated  by  the  United 
Gas  Improvement  Company,  and  in  attending  the  conventions  of 
the  different  engineering  societies  to  which  I  belong.  The  only 
extensive  pleasure  trip  which  I  have  made  in  this  country  included 
a  trip  to  Denver  and  Colorado  Springs  and  to  the  Yellowstone  in 
1905.  In  1906  I  also  made  a  two  months'  pleasure  trip  to  Europe, 
taking  Mrs.  Spencer  with  me." 

Spencer  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  attends  the  Episcopal 
church  in  Ardmore.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Merion  Cricket  Club  of 
Haver  ford,  Pa.,  the  University  Club  of  New  York  City,  the 
National  Electric  Association,  of  which  he  is  a  member  of  the 


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PAUL  SPEXCER 


board  of  managers,  the  Illuminating  Engineering  Society,  the 
Franklin  Institute  of  Philadelphia,  and  is  a  fellow  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Electrical  Engineers,  having  been  on  its 
board  of  directors  from  1906  to  1911,  manager  from  1907  to  1909 
and  vice-president  in  1910  and  1911. 

He  was  married  April  25,  1894,  to  Frances  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Alexander  C.  and  Clara  (Wiswall)  Durbin,  of  Montclair,  N.  J. 
They  have  had  three  children: 

Frederick  Oilman,  born  June  24,  1895,  in  Montclair,  N.  J.  He 
attended  the  Chestnut  Hill  Academy  in  Philadelphia  and  Pomfret 
School,  and  is  at  present  a  student  at  the  Episcopal  Academy  in 
Philadelphia. 

Frances  Margaret,  born  August  15,  1899,  in  Ellenville,  N.  Y. 
She  is  attending  Miss  Irwin's  School  in  Philadelphia. 

Their  third  child,  Caroline,  born  June  4,  1902,  in  Rosemont, 
Pa.,  died  in  Atlantic  City,  July  12,  1903. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


Frederick  Sprague 

15  Michigan  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 

Frederick  Sprague  was  born 
in  Chicago,,  111.,  October  4,  1865, 
the  son  of  William  Sprague.  He 
prepared  at  the  Chicago  Central 
High  School,  and  in  college  was 
a  member  of  the  University  Club, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Scroll 
and  Key. 

He  was,  for  a  number  of 
years,  in  the  glass  business  with 
his  father  in  Chicago,  and  in 
1899  became  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Orangeine  Chemical 
Company  of  Chicago. 


FREDERICK   SPRAGUE 


Edward  Staehlin,  M.D. 

Physician  and  Surgeon,  15  Lincoln  Park,  Newark,  N.  J. 

Edward  Staehlin  is  a  son  of  Christian  and  Magdalena  (Vogel) 
Staehlin,  who  were  married  May  9,  1847,  and  had  three  other 
children:  Robert,  M.D.  Columbia  University  '72  (died  February 
27,  1886),  Emma  (died  September  28,  1905)  and  Gustav  Staehlin, 
a  graduate  of  the  art  schools  of  Berlin  and  Paris.  Christian 
Staehlin  was  born  May  13,  1817,  in  Baden,  Germany,  and  died 
October  21,  1880,  in  Newark,  N.  J.  He  came  to  this  country  in 
1847  and  was  a  manufacturer  of  shoes.  Magdalena  (Vogel) 
Staehlin  was  born  March  12,  1827,  in  Baden,  Germany,  and  died 
October  18,  1884,  in  Newark,  N.  J. 

Staehlin  was  born  June  25,   1865,  in  Newark,  N.   J.,  and  was 


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prepared  at  the  high  school  of  that  place.  In  college  he  received 
a  first  colloquy  appointment  in  both  Junior  and  Senior  years,  and 
gave  the  Class  Ivy  Oration. 

He  graduated  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New 
York,  in  1890,  and  subsequently  did  hospital  work  at  the  German 
Hospital,  Vanderbilt  Clinic  and  Chambers  Street  Hospital  until 
1893.  He  then  spent  a  year  in  the  study  of  medicine  in  Vienna, 
returning  home  in  1894,  since  which  time  he  has  been  engaged  in 
the  general  practice  of  medicine  in  Newark.  He  has  written  a 
number  of  articles  which  have  appeared  in  various  medical  journals. 
He  writes : 

"I  have  been  plugging  along  the  same  old  way,  doing  what  was 
put  before  me,  with  perhaps  an  accentuated  effort  in  things  surgical. 
I  have  taken  the  bitter  with  the  sweet  and  have  endeavored  to  meet 
everything  with  the  spirit  of  fortitude  and  even  temper  inculcated 


EDWARD  STAEHLIN 


888  BIOGRAPHIES 


at  Yale.  As  I  am  growing  older  I  find  it  easier  to  make  sacrifices 
(I  trust  it  is  not  the  sign  of  old  age,  but  rather  of  long  serving, 
for  I  like  my  work  and  trust  I  may  keep  on  a  little  longer).  To 
forego  the  pleasure  of  attending  our  last  reunion  was  one  of  the 
greatest  sacrifices  I  have  been  called  upon  to  make.  I  simply  could 
not  leave  the  work  I  had  to  do  at  the  time  at  our  City  Hospital. 
You  see,  I  am  not  great  enough  to  do  as  I  please,  yet  not  so  small 
as  to  shirk  duty,  when  duty  calls.  I  hope  to  respond  to  the  next 
call. 

"During  the  summer  of  1911  I  took  the  cruise  from  Hamburg 
to  Spitzbergen  and  return  with  two  friends.  Between  Faroe 
Islands  and  Iceland,  while  in  a  dense  fog  which  lasted  several  days 
and  made  us  change  our  course  almost  to  Labrador,  I  dropped  an 
empty  bottle  overboard,  which  enclosed  a  piece  of  paper  on  which 
we  together  agreed  to  pay  the  finder  of  said  bottle  <£lO,  English 
money.  This  was,  I  think,  on  the  14th  of  July,  1911.  On  the  10th 
of  April,  1912,  I  received  a  letter  from  the  consul  general  of  Den- 
mark stating  that  said  bottle  was  found  by  an  Icelander  in  one  of 
the  fiords  of  Iceland  on  the  18th  day  of  February,  1912,  and  asking 
if  we  or  any  of  the  party  intended  making  good  for  the  return  of 
said  paper  by  exchanging  a  <£lO  note.  I  got  the  'bunch'  together, 
and  we  are  now  severally  and  collectively  the  possessors  of  the 
scrap  of  paper  which  floated  about  in  the  arctic  seas  for  just  half 
a  year.  We  intend  giving  the  paper  to  the  local  historical  society. 
It  has  more  official  stamps  and  seals  imprinted  upon  it  from  Ice- 
land to  Denmark  than  an  old-time  death  warrant.  Rather  inter- 
esting, don't  you  think  so?" 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  the  New 
Jersey  State  Society,  the  Essex  County  Medical  Society,  the  Patho- 
logical and  Anatomical  Society  of  Essex  County,  the  Practitioners 
and  Physicians  and  Surgeons  clubs  of  Newark  and  the  Academy  of 
Medicine  of  Northern  New  Jersey.  He  is  a  fellow  of  the  American 
College  of  Surgeons  and  in  1914  was  president  of  the  Society  of 
Surgeons  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey. 

He  has  not  married. 


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889 


Maximilian  Lincoln  Stein 

Real  Estate,  with  Frederick  H.  Bartlett  &  Company,  59-69  West  Wash- 
ington Street,  Chicago,  111. 

Permanent  address,  care  Oswald  Stein,  917  East  Fiftieth  Street,  Chicago,  111. 


Maximilian  L.  Stein  was  born 
in  Waukesha,  Wis.,  August  24, 
1867,  the  son  of  Charles  Stein. 
At  the  time  of  entering  college 
the  family  resided  in  Milwaukee, 
where  the  son  was  prepared.  In 
college  he  won  a  Berkeley  pre- 
mium of  the  first  grade  and 
received  an  oration  Junior  and 
a  dissertation  Senior  appoint- 
ment. 

For  several  years  Stein  has 
been  in  the  real  estate  business 
and  is  now  connected  with  Fred- 
erick H.  Bartlett  &  Company, 
the  largest  firm  of  real  estate 
operators  in  Chicago. 


MAXIMILIAN   LINCOLN   STEIN 


William  Pirrie  Taylor 

Director,   Beverly   Independent   Industrial   School,   Beverly,   Mass. 
Residence,  75  Corning  Street,  Beverly,  Mass. 

William  P.  Taylor  is  a  son  of  James  and  Isabella  (Pirrie) 
Taylor,  who  were  married  January  17,  1862,  and  had  eight  other 
children:  John,  James,  Williams  College  '95,  Harvard  Medical 
School  '00,  Alexander,  George  Wilson,  Andrew  Cairns  (died  Febru- 
ary 19,  1898),  Thomas  Wilson,  Isabella  (Mrs.  James  Edward  Rey- 
nolds), attended  Smith  College  during  1892-93,  and  Jacobina 


390  BIOGRAPHIES 


Walker  Taylor  (Mrs.  Lucian  Willis  Bugbee),  a  special  student  at 
Mount  Holyoke  College  in  1895.  James  Taylor  was  born  January 
18,  1836,  in  Perth,  Scotland.  He  lived  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  until 
March,  1875,  when  he  came  to  this  country  and  settled  in  South- 
bridge,  Mass.  He  was  superintendent  of  the  engraving  and  die- 
cutting  department  of  the  Hamilton  Print  Works  and  Sandersdale 
Printing  Company  of  Southbridge  until  his  retirement  in  1903. 
Isabella  (Pirrie)  Taylor  was  born  March  4,  1837,  in  Crieff,  Scot- 
land. 

Taylor  was  born  November  24,  1864,  in  Glasgow,  Scotland.  He 
spent  his  boyhood  in  Southbridge,  Mass.,  where  he  was  prepared  at 
the  high  school.  In  college  he  was  Class  Deacon,  a  substitute  on 
the  Class  Football  Team,  and  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club. 

He  writes:  "I  spent  the  first  two  years  after  graduation  in  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  work  in  Fitchburg  and  Boston,  Mass., 
and  as  assistant  state  secretary  for  Massachusetts  and  Rhode 
Island. 

"In  1889  I  began  my  life-work  as  teacher  in  a  preparatory 
school  for  the  University  of  Virginia  at  Charlottesville,  Va.  This 
position  I  resigned,  as  my  wife  and  I  expected  to  go  to  China  as 
educational  missionaries.  War  in  China  blocked  our  plans,  so  we 
went  south  to  Birmingham,  Ala.,  and  organized  'The  Taylor  School' 
in  1891.  For  thirteen  years  I  carried  on  this  school,  sending  my 
pupils  into  twenty-six  colleges  and  scientific  schools.  I  had  a 
pretty  busy  life  outside  of  my  regular  work  and  I  can  say  without 
boasting  that  I  carried  out  the  Yale  idea  of  'service.'  I  was  active 
in  church  and  Sunday  school,  in  Christian  Endeavor,  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
teachers'  organizations  and  athletics.  Workers  were  so  scarce  that 
I  was  usually  put  at  the  head  of  these  organizations  in  their  state 
and  sectional  bodies. 

"In  1891  the  Brookfield  (Mass.)  Association  of  Congregational 
Churches  licensed  me  to  preach  and  I  usually  filled  my  Sundays  in 
this  work.  I  was  largely  instrumental  in  organizing  a  Presbyterian 
church,  state  Christian  Endeavor  Union,  and  the  Yale  Club  of 
Alabama,  being  the  first  president  of  this.  In  other  lines  I  was  a 
member  of  the  Southern  Intercollegiate  Football  Association  and 
advisory  member  of  the  National  Basket  Ball  Rules  Committee.  At 
New  Orleans,  in  1893,  I  had  the  pleasure  of  captaining  a  football 


GRADUATES 


391 


WILLIAM    PIRRIE   TAYLOR 


team  which  played  a  team  captained  by  'Nervy'  Bayne.  During 
the  Spanish-American  War  I  did  religious  work  for  the  soldiers, 
especially  at  Chickamauga,  until  I  had  to  go  to  the  hospital  for  an 
operation. 

"Several  factors  were  instrumental  in  bringing  me  back  north 
again  in  1904.  I  became  Latin  master  at  The  Hill  School,  Potts- 
town,  Pa.,  and  served  two  years,  resigning  to  take  up  service  for 
industrial  men  and  boys.  Five  years  of  this  work  kept  me  in 
Worcester,  Mass.,  as  educational  director  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  until 
I  entered  on  my  present  field  as  director  of  the  Beverly  Independ- 
ent Industrial  School.  We  are  training  boys  to  be  expert  machin- 
ists and  draftsmen  and  the  school  is  clearly  making  good  along  its 
unique  lines. 

"I  enjoy  life  immensely  with  my  wife  and  family  and  work;  I 
trust  that  much  of  this  joy  comes  from  the  consciousness  of  being  of 
service  to  others.  Next  to  my  family,  Yale  occupies  the  largest 
place  in  my  affections.  I'm  glad  I  am  a  son  of  Yale;  my  love  for 


392  BIOGRAPHIES 


her  and  desire  to  emulate  her  spirit  grows  stronger  with  the  years. 
I  expect  to  continue  growing  young  and  fruitful  in  teaching.  God 
bless  Eighty-seven,  the  best  fellows  under  heaven." 

Taylor  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church  and  in  politics 
votes  independently.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  the 
Economic  and  Congregational  clubs  of  Worcester,,  the  National 
Educational  Association  and  the  National  Society  for  the  Promo- 
tion of  Industrial  Education. 

He  was  married  June  17,  1890,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to  Nettie 
Taylor,  professor  of  elocution  in  Rutger's  College  for  Women, 
daughter  of  Noble  A.  and  Phoebe  (Stockholm)  Taylor.  They 
have  had  three  children: 

Dorothy  Isabella,  born  August  20,  1893. 

Andrew  William,  born  January  1,  1895. 

Their  third  child,  Nettie  Ella,  born  July  10,  1896,  died  February 
28,  1897,  in  Birmingham,  Ala. 


William  Larned  Thacher 

Associate  Headmaster  of  the  Thacher  School,  Ojai  Valley,  Nordhoff,  Calif. 

William  L.  Thacher  is  a  son  of  Professor  Thomas  Anthony 
Thacher,  B.A.  Yale  1835  and  M.A.  1838,  LL.D.  Western  Reserve 
1869,  and  Elizabeth  Baldwin  (Sherman)  Thacher,  who  were  mar- 
ried August  1,  1860,  and  had  three  other  children:  Sherman  Day, 
Yale  '83  (now  associate  headmaster  of  the  Thacher  School  for 
boys  at  Nordhoff),  Elizabeth  (married  William  Kent,  '87)  and 
George  Thacher,  who  died  at  the  age  of  nineteen.  Thomas  Anthony 
Thacher  was  born  January  11,  1815,  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and 
died  April  7,  1886,  in  New  Haven.  He  was  the  son  of  Peter 
and  Anne  (Parks)  Thacher,  and  the  great-great-great-great-grand- 
son of  the  first  pastor  of  the  Old  South  Church  in  Boston,  Mass. 
After  graduation  he  taught  for  a  few  months  in  the  Academy  at 
New  Canaan,  Conn.,  and  then  for  three  years  in  Georgia.  On 
December  1,  1838,  he  became  a  tutor  of  Latin  at  Yale  and  in 
August,  1842,  was  advanced  to  the  professorship  of  Latin,  in  which 
position  he  remained  until  his  death.  He  studied  in  Germany, 
where  he  was  the  tutor  of  the  father  of  the  present  emperor.  He 


GRADUATES 


WILLIAM    LARNED    THACHER 


married  as  his  first  wife,  Elizabeth,  second  daughter  of  Rev. 
President  Jeremiah  Day,  who  died  May  18,  1858,  leaving  five 
sons:  James  Kingsley,  Yale  '68  (died  April  20,  1891),  Thomas, 
Yale  '71,  M.A.  '74,  LL.B.  Columbia  '75,  LL.D.  1903,  Edward 
Stanley,  Yale  '72,  Alfred  Beaumont,  Yale  '74,  tutor  at  Yale 
1877-79,  and  John  Seymour  Thacher,  Yale  '77,  M.D.  Columbia 
'80,  professor  of  clinical  medicine  at  Columbia.  Our  classmate's 
mother,  Elizabeth  Baldwin  Sherman,  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  October  27,  1823,  and  is  the  daughter  of  Roger  Sherman, 
Yale  1787,  and  Susan  (Staples)  Sherman,  and  the  granddaughter 
of  Hon.  Roger  Sherman,  treasurer  of  Yale  1764-76,  Honorary 
M.A.  1768,  and  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

Thacher  was  born  in  New  Haven,  October  9,  1866.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  the  place  of  his  birth,  and  he  was  prepared  at 
the  Hopkins  Grammar  School.  In  college  he  received  dissertation 
appointments  in  Junior  and  Senior  years,  was  on  the  Yale  Inter- 
collegiate Tennis  Team  and  president  of  the  Tennis  Club,  on  the 


394  BIOGRAPHIES 


Junior  Prom  Committee,  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Xetrs,  and  a  member 
of  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones. 

He  spent  the  first  rear  after  graduation  in  the  Yale  Medical 
School  and  the  three  Tears  following  in  the  Union  Theological 
Seminary  of  New  York  City.  From  1888  to  1894  he  was  connected 
with  the  Students'  Branch  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion of  New  York  City  and  also  with  the  University  Settlement 
and  Union  Settlement  of  that  city.  In  1894-95  he  was  a  home 
missionary  in  a  Presbyterian  church  in  East  Bradford,  Pa.  Since 
1895  he  has  been  associated  with  his  brother,  Sherman  Day 
Thacher,  in  the  Thacher  School  for  Boys,  first  as  a  teacher,  then 
as  assistant  headmaster,  and  now  as  associate  headmaster  and  head 
of  the  Latin  department.  He  writes: 

"My  travels  have  included  about  twenty-five  crossings  of  the 
continent  for  pleasure,  health,  school  business  and  class  meetings. 
Then,  my  mother  and  I  have  been  to  Europe  three  times,  to  Hawaii 
and  Alaska  twice,  and  even  over  the  line  into  Mexico.  We  also 
feel  as  if  the  world  comes  to  us,  for  some  of  the  best  part  of  it 
has,  namely,  the  following  '87  men:  Clarke,  Cowles,  Coxe,  John 
Curtis,  Hawley.  Johnson.  Kent,  Knight,  Pomeroy,  Tracy  and 
George  Woodward. 

"My  recreations  have  been  games  like  tennis  (the  boys  seldom 
beat  me  yet!),  golf,  baseball  (we  play  daily  with  the  boys  at  recess; 
I  am  first  base),  horseback  riding,  camping,  fishing,  auction  bridge, 
backgammon  with  Madam  Thacher,  etc. 

"I  have  always  taken  an  interest  in  the  Ojai  Valley  Presbyterian 
Church  and  am  glad  of  a  union  of  it  and  a  Congregational  church, 
which  I  helped  along.  They  were  each  struggling  missionary 
churches  at  different  ends  of  the  village  street.  They  were  put  on 
wheels  and  rolled  to  a  central  point  and  became  one  self-supporting 
organization.  Education  and  charitable  works  have  interested  me. 
like  the  local  schools,  several  Los  Angeles  settlements.  Children's 
Home  Society,  a  missionary  Thacher  School  in  India,  etc.  My 
aims,  I  suppose,  are  covered  by  a  motto  of  my  father,  'Xe  sua  quis- 
que  sed  aliena  quoque  inspiciat.'  (I  teach  Latin  and  so  may  be 
allowed  this  liberty  !V 

Thacher  is  also  vice-president  and  a  director  of  the  Ojai  Improve- 
ment Company,  which  owns  a  hotel,  some  land  and  the  water  works 


(IKADCATES  395 


of  the  village,  trustee  of  the  Ojai  Public  Library,  president  of  the 
Ojai  cemetery,  president  of  the  Ojai  Valley  Tennis  Club,  trustee 
and  chairman  of  the  finance  committee  of  the  Ojai  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  he  has  been  a  representative  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation of  Southern  California  upon  the  Advisory  Board  since  its 
formation.  He  is  a  Progressive  Republican  in  politics  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Sierra,  Ojai  Valley,  Ojai  Valley  Tennis  and  Golf 
clubs,  the  University  Club  of  Los  Angeles  and  the  Archaeological 
Society  of  America. 

He  was  married  in  Sierra  Madre,  Calif.,  June  27,  1911,  to  Hilda, 
daughter  of  John  George  Blumer.  a  retired  English  shipbuilder  and 
present  owner  of  an  orange  and  lemon  ranch  near  Los  Angeles, 
and  sister  of  Dr.  George  Blumer,  dean  of  the  Yale  Medical  School. 
They  have  one  child: 

Edith,  born  May  4.  1913.  at  Nordhoff,  Calif. 


Richard  Simms  Thomas 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Ginn  &  Company,  70  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City 
Residence,  9  East  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York  City 

Richard  S.  Thomas  is  a  son  of  Richard  Simms  and  Helen  Mal- 
vina  (Naylor)  Thomas,  who  were  married  March  4,  1843,  and  had 
eight  other  children:  Henry  Theodore,  LL.B.  University  of  Chicago 
1865,  Frances  Lucy  (died  August  28,  1847,  in  Virginia,  111.), 
Rebecca  Catharine  (died  February  8,  1853,  in  Virginia,  111.),  Jesse 
Burgess.  William  Nash  (died  September  10.  1854,  in  Virginia, 
111.).  Mary  (died  January  4.  1897.  in  Boonton,  N.  J.),  Helen  and 
Eliza  Thomas.  Richard  Simms  Thomas,  the  father,  was  born 
June  3.  1817.  in  Jackson.  Cape  Girardeau  County.  Mo.,  and  died 
December  14.  1865,  in  Jacksonville,  111.  He  was  the  son  of  Richard 
Simms  Thomas,  judge  of  the  Fourth  Judicial  Circuit.  Missouri,  and 
Frances  (Pattie)  Thomas,  and  was  descended  from  Thomas 
Thomas,  who  came  from  England  in  1651  and  settled  in  St.  Mary's 
County.  Md.  He  attended  Illinois  College  at  Jacksonville  until 
the  course  was  discontinued  by  slavery  agitation.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  Illinois,  June  29,  1840;  elected  school  commissioner 
for  Cass  County.  1841;  appointed  adjutant  of  the  Twenty-first 


396 


BIOGRAPHIES 


RICHARD  SIMMS   THOMAS 


Regiment,  Illinois  Militia,  1843;  elected  to  the  Illinois  legislature 
for  Cass  and  Menard  counties,  1848;  continued  the  practice  of  law 
until  1856;  president  of  the  Illinois  River  Railroad  Company,  1856- 
64;  commissioner  to  audit  state  war  claims,  trustee  University  of 
Chicago  and  Baptist  Theological  Union.  Helen  Malvina  Naylor 
was  born  in  Edmonton,  Ky.,  December  4,  1825,  and  died  in  Boston, 
Mass.,  August  3,  1900.  She  was  the  daughter  of  William  and  Lucy 
(Clark)  Naylor,  both  of  whom  were  descended  from  old  Virginia 
and  Kentucky  families  and  were  of  English  origin. 

Thomas  was  born  at  Waukegan,  111.,  February  19,  1866.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Chicago,  111.,  and  in  Boonton,  N.  J.,  and  he 
was  prepared  by  private  tutoring.  In  college  he  received  a  Junior 
dispute  and  a  Senior  dissertation  appointment,  was  a  member  of 
the  Intercollegiate  Tennis  Team,  and  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

While  attending  Columbia  Law  School,  1887-89,  and  until  1892 
he  was  a  teacher  in  Woodbridge  School,  New  York  City.  He 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Columbia  in  1889  and  was 


GRADUATES 


397 


admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  in  March,  1890.  From  August, 
1892,  to  October,  1893,  he  was  New  England  manager  of  the  Uni- 
versity Publishing  Company,  with  headquarters  in  Boston.  He 
then  became  connected  with  Ginn  &  Company,  educational  pub- 
lishers of  New  York,  Boston  and  Chicago,  and  in  1898  was  admitted 
to  the  firm,  his  headquarters  being  the  New  York  office.  He  is 
also  president  of  Knight  &  Thomas,  Inc.,  manufacturers  of  Under- 
writer fire  extinguishers,  Boston,  Mass. 

He  is  an  Episcopalian  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican.  He  was 
a  private  in  Troop  A,  National  Guard,  State  of  New  York,  from 
1889  to  1891.  He  is  a  member  of  the  University,  Yale  and  Salma- 
gundi clubs  of  New  York  City,  of  the  Ardsley  Club  of  Ardsley-on- 
Hudson,  N.  Y.,  and  of  the  University  Club  of  Boston.  He  plays 
tennis  and  golf. 

He  has  not  married. 


*  Joseph  Lyle  Thornton,  Jr. 


Died  June  17,  1890 

Joseph  L.  Thornton,  Jr.,  son 
of  Dr.  Joseph  Lyle  Thornton, 
Miami  University  1858,  was 
born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Janu- 
ary 3,  1865,  and  entered  Yale 
at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore 
year,  his  residence  at  that  time 
being  in  Middletown,  Butler 
County,  Ohio. 

After  graduation  he  studied 
law,  and  first  settled  in  Logans- 
port,  Ind.,  whence  he  went  to 
Seattle,  Wash.,  where  he  had  an 
apparently  prosperous  future 
before  him  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  June  17,  1890. 

He  was  unmarried. 


JOSEPH  LYLE  THORNTOK 


398 


BIOGRAPHIES 


CHARLES   Louis  TORREY 


Charles  Louis  Torrey 

Lawyer,  of  the  firm  of  Torrey  &  Geissler,  New  Bradley  Building, 
Elm  Street,  Putnam,  Conn. 

Residence,  74  Grove  Street,  Putnam,  Conn. 

Charles  Louis  Torrey,  the  son  of  Charles  D.  and  Martha  W. 
(Warren)  Torrey,  was  born  December  14,  1862,  in  Putnam,  Conn. 
His  boyhood  was  spent  in  Putnam,  Conn.,  and  he  was  prepared 
at  the  high  school  of  that  place. 

After  graduation  he  taught  school  for  a  year.  After  studying 
law  in  an  office,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  has  since  been 
practicing  in  Putnam.  He  is  now  the  senior  member  of  the  firm 
of  Torrey  &  Geissler. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  has  held  a  number  of  local 
offices,  including  that  of  corporation  counsel  from  1904  to  1908, 
and  since  1912.  He  served  in  the  lower  house  of  the  Connecticut 
legislature,  session  of  1907,  and  was  a  member  of  the  judiciary 


GRADUATES  399 


committee,  and  chairman  of  the  committee  on  engrossed  bills.     He 
is  a  member  of  the  State  Bar  Association. 

He  was  married  October  23,  1897,  to  Helen  Martha,  daughter  of 
George  M.  and  Mary  Washburn  Porter,  of  Willimantic,  Conn. 


Howard  Crosby  Tracy 

Lawyer,  of  the  firm  of  Dean,  Tracy  &  McBarron,  160  Broadway, 
New  York  City 

Residence,  1331  Prospect  Avenue,  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

Howard  C.  Tracy  is  a  son  of  Jeremiah  Evarts  Tracy,  LL.B.  Yale 
1857,  and  Martha  Sherman  (Greene)  Tracy,  who  were  married 
September  30,  1863.  and  had  eight  other  children:  Emily  Baldwin, 
Evarts,  Yale  '90,  Mary  Evarts,  Robert  Storer,  B.A.  Yale  '93,  M.D. 
Columbia  '96  (died  April  13,  1899,  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.), 
Margaret  Louisa,  Edith  Hastings,  Martha,  B.A.  Bryn  Mawr  '98, 
M.D.  Woman's  Medical  College  of  Pennsylvania  '04,  associate  pro- 
fessor of  chemistry,  director  of  chemistry  laboratory  and  patholo- 
gist, Woman's  Medical  College,  and  William  Evarts  Tracy,  B.A. 
Yale  '00,  Mn.E.  Columbia  '04.  Jeremiah  Evarts  Tracy  was  born 
January  31,  1835,  in  Windsor,  Vt.,  and  is  the  son  of  Ebenezer 
Carter  Tracy  and  Martha  Sherman  (Evarts)  Tracy,  daughter  of 
Jeremiah  Evarts,  Yale  1802.  He  is  descended  from  Stephen  Tracy, 
who  came  from  England  to  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  June,  1623,  later 
moving  to  Duxbury,  Mass.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New 
York  in  February,  1856,  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from 
Yale  in  1857.  He  practiced  law  in  New  York  City,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  the  successive  firms  of  Evarts,  Southmayd  &  Choate,  Evarts, 
Choate  &  Beaman,  and  Evarts,  Tracy  &  Sherman.  He  retired 
from  practice  in  1907.  He  served  two  terms  as  a  member  and  also 
as  president  of  the  Common  Council  of  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  governors  of  the  Muhlenberg  Hospital,  Plain- 
field,  N.  J.,  and  as  a  director  of  the  Plainfield  Public  Library  for 
about  twenty-five  years.  Martha  Sherman  Greene  was  born  May 
24,  1839,  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  and  died  February  19,  1910,  in  New 
York  City.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  David  Greene,  B.A.  Yale 
1821,  M.A.  1825,  and  Mary  (Evarts)  Greene,  daughter  of  Jere- 


400  BIOGRAPHIES 


miah  Evarts,  Yale  1802,  and  sister  of  Jeremiah  Evarts  Greene, 
Yale  1853.  She  was  the  great-granddaughter  of  Roger  Sherman, 
treasurer  of  Yale,  1764-76,  honorary  M.A.  1768,  who  was  a  signer 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  a  member  of  the  Continental 
Congress,  of  the  United  States  Constitutional  Convention  and  of 
the  Senate. 

Tracy  was  born  at  Westboro,  Mass.,  August  1,  1866,  and  his 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Plainfield,  N.  J.  He  was  prepared  in  a  pri- 
vate school  in  Plainfield  and  in  Dr.  Pingree's  School,  Elizabeth, 
N.  J.  In  college  he  received  dissertation  appointments  in  Junior 
and  Senior  years,  was  on  the  Class  Lacrosse  Team  in  Sophomore 
year,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit  Club,  Gamma  Nu  and  Psi 
Upsilon. 

Having  graduated  cum  laude  from  the  Columbia  Law  School  in 
1889,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  November  of  that  year  and  has 
since  practiced  in  New  York.  He  was  in  the  office  of  Evarts, 
Choate  &  Beaman,  where  he  had  served  his  clerkship  and  of  which 
firm  his  father  was  a  member,  until  the  fall  of  1893.  At  that  time 
he  formed  a  partnership  with  Wolcott  G.  Lane,  Yale  '88,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Tracy  &  Lane,  which  was  dissolved  in  1902,  and  he 
practiced  alone  for  a  year.  He  then  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Lawyers'  Title  Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  being  at  first 
engaged  in  the  examination  and  reading  of  titles  to  real  estate, 
and  in  1905  becoming  connected  with  the  litigation  department  of 
the  company,  which  was  in  charge  of  Philip  S.  Dean.  At  that  time 
the  Title  Company  was  merged  with  the  Central  Realty  Bond  & 
Trust  Company,  under  the  name  of  Lawyers'  Title  Insurance  & 
Trust  Company,  and  his  work  has  since  been  chiefly  in  connection 
with  the  trust  and  banking  department.  He  was  assistant  attorney 
of  the  company  until  May,  1913,  when  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  Philip  S.  Dean  of  the  Title  Company  and  Frank  J.  McBarron, 
formerly  of  the  same  company,  under  the  name  of  Dean,  Tracy  & 
McBarron.  He  writes: 

"In  the  early  days  of  the  firm  of  Tracy  &  Lane,  I  was  appointed 
secretary  of  the  reorganization  committee  of  the  Oregon  Railway 
&  Navigation  Company,  one  of  the  subsidiary  companies  of  the 
Union  Pacific,  of  which  committee  the  late  Charles  C.  Beaman  was 
counsel.  In  connection  with  the  completion  of  that  reorganization, 


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401 


HOWARD    CROSBY    TRACY 


I  accompanied  the  committee  to  the  Pacific  coast  in  the  summer  of 
1896,  going  over  all  the  lines  of  the  company  in  Oregon,  Washington 
and  Idaho,  taking  a  side  trip  down  through  California  as  far  as 
Santa  Barbara,  and  making  a  flying  visit  to  the  Thacher  School 
in  the  Ojai  Valley.  That  trip  has  been  my  most  extensive  traveling. 

"While  I  was  studying  law  and  after  my  admission  to  the  bar 
until  my  marriage,  I  lived  in  New  York  City  with  a  number  of 
congenial  Yale  men,  the  members  of  the  crowd  varying  from  time 
to  time,  but  including,  at  different  times,  Lewis,  Pierson  and  Ship- 
man,  '86,  Lane,  Seward  and  Solley,  '88,  Durand,  Haslam,  Opdyke 
and  Griswold,  '90.  I  always  look  back  upon  those  years  with 
pleasure,  and  it  was  under  the  stimulation  of  such  companionship 
that  I  formed  my  first  acquaintance  with  German  opera,  and 
learned  to  enjoy  it. 

"Since  my  marriage,  my  wife  and  I  have  lived  in  Plainfield, 
N.  J.,  in  the  heart  of  the  city  until  1903,  when  we  built  a  house  on 
higher  ground  and  nearer  the  outskirts.  We  have  about  an  acre 


BIOGRAPHIES 


of  land,  and  since  taking  possession,  my  chief  recreation  has 
been  working  in  my  vegetable  garden  and  puttering  around  the 
place,  pruning  and  spraying  fruit  trees  and  otherwise  returning  to 
the  simple  life.  Just  now  I  am  experimenting  in  grafting  (unpro- 
pitious  as  that  word  may  appear  in  these  days)  and  am  trying  to 
produce  six  different  kinds  of  apples  from  a  single  seedling  tree. 
When  I  was  a  small  boy  it  was  my  ambition  to  become  a  farmer, 
and  while  that  ideal  faded  somewhat  during  my  college  and  early 
professional  life,  I  find  it  now  reviving  with  renewed  strength, 
and  if  the  practice  of  law  proves  sufficiently  remunerative  to  allow 
of  the  accumulation  of  a  moderate  competence,  I  may  be  found  in 
my  old  age,  or  sooner,  retired  to  a  farm  and  engaged  in  the  pro- 
duction of  fruit  or  poultry. 

"Both  my  wife  and  I  are  extremely  fond  of  outdoor  life  either 
in  the  woods  or  on  the  water,  and  during  our  vacations  have  spent 
much  time  in  canoeing.  About  ten  years  ago  we  took  a  delightful 
trip  in  company  with  Jim  McCormick,  his  sister  and  a  friend, 
down  the  Susquehanna  River  from  Wilkes-Barre  to  Harrisburg 
in  one  canoe  and  one  row  boat.  For  a  number  of  years  we  have 
spent  our  summer  vacations  at  Castine,  Maine,  where  we  keep  a 
canoe,  and  have  taken  canoe  trips  along  the  coast,  going  twice  to 
Mount  Desert  Island  and  circumnavigating  it.  In  this  neighbor- 
hood we  are  accustomed  to  find  Brownson  and  his  wife,  Pettee  and 
his  family  and  sometimes  our  esteemed  Secretary. 

"I  have  always  taken  an  interest  in  public  affairs,  though  not  an 
active  part,  except  so  far  as  to  serve  on  our  local  Republican  city 
committee  for  several  years  subsequent  to  1906.  My  sympathies 
have  always  been  with  the  reform,  'new  idea/  or  progressive  ele- 
ment. During  campaigns  I  have  frequently  contributed  letters  to 
local  newspapers  and  in  1910  wrote  several  communications  in 
support  of  the  renomination  for  Congress  of  Charles  N.  Fowler. 
I  am  an  admirer  of  Senator  La  Follette,  and  supported  him  for 
the  presidential  nomination  at  the  primaries,  but  ultimately  voted 
for  Roosevelt. 

"I  have  always  enjoyed  our  '87  reunions  and  think  they  improve 
as  they  grow  older.  The  twenty-fifth  was  the  best  yet.  Those  who 
cannot  come  to  such  reunions  deserve  our  sympathy,  and  those  who 
could,  but  don't,  make  a  great  mistake." 


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Tracy  served  for  several  years  as  a  member  and  as  secretary  of 
the  district  committee  of  the  Organized  Aid  Association  of  Plain- 
field;  in  1911  and  1912  he  was  one  of  the  commissioners  of  sewer 
assessments  of  Plainfield.  He  joined  Troop  A  Cavalry,  New  York 
State  National  Guard  in  1889,  and  served  as  a  private  for  about 
three  years,  resigning  on  account  of  trouble  with  his  eyes.  He  is  a 
member  of  Grace  Episcopal  Church  of  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  and  a 
member  of  the  New  York  Bar  Association. 

He  was  married  June  24,  1893,  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  to  Minerva 
Bingham,  daughter  of  Eastburn  E.  and  Martha  (Wardner) 
Lamson. 


Elford  Parry  Trowbridge 

President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Montowese  Brick  Company,  116  Church 
Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Residence,  258  Church  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Elford  P.  Trowbridge  is  a  son  of  Winston  John  and  Margaret 
Elford  (Dean)  Trowbridge,  who  were  married  August  31,  1854, 
and  had  four  other  children:  Winston  J.,  Yale  '79,  Maud  (Trow- 
bridge) Reynolds  (wife  of  Professor  Horatio  M.  Reynolds,  Yale 
'80),  Frank  D.  Trowbridge,  Yale  '84,  (died  November  5,  1913,  in 
New  Haven),  and  Constance  (Trowbridge)  Kellogg.  Winston  John 
Trowbridge,  Sr.,  was  born  May  10,  1820,  in  New  Haven,  and 
died  there  November  6,  1864.  He  was  a  son  of  Henry  Trow- 
bridge and  brother  of  Thomas  Rutherford  Trowbridge,  the  grand- 
father of  Francis  Bacon  and  William  Rutherford  Hayes  Trow- 
bridge, of  '87.  His  great-grandfather,  Daniel  Trowbridge,  was 
a  graduate  of  Yale  in  the  Class  of  1725,  and  his  fourth  great- 
grandfather was  Thomas  Trowbridge,  the  founder  of  the  Trow- 
bridge family  in  America,  who  came  from  Taunton,  England,  in 
1634,  and  settled  in  Dorchester,  removing  to  New  Haven  in  1638. 
Winston  J.  Trowbridge  engaged  in  the  West  Indies  business  with 
his  father  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen  was  sent  to  Barbados  to  take 
charge  of  the  sugar  interests  there.  After  his  father's  death,  he 
and  his  three  brothers  formed  the  firm  of  H.  Trowbridge's  Sons, 
and  he  was  the  first  of  that  firm  to  reside  in  Barbados.  The 
prosperity  of  the  firm  was  due  in  a  large  measure  to  his  good 


404 


BIOGRAPHIES 


ELFORD  PARRY  TROWBRIDGE 


management.  He  was  appointed  United  States  consul  for  Bar- 
bados, August  31,  1852.  He  returned  to  America  in  the  fall  of 
1864  for  medical  treatment,  as  his  health  was  failing,  and  died 
shortly  after  his  arrival  here.  His  family  then  returned  to  New 
Haven.  He  married  as  his  first  wife  Mary  Dwight  Newton  Leaven- 
worth,  adopted  daughter  of  Isaac  Leavenworth  and  daughter  of 
Rev.  Samuel  and  Mary  Hunt  Newton.  She  died  October  30,  1852, 
in  Barbados,  leaving  him  one  daughter,  Mary  (Trowbridge)  Town- 
send,  widow  of  the  late  Judge  William  K.  Townsend,  Yale  '71. 
Our  classmate's  mother,  Margarette  Elford  Dean,  was  born 
December  22,  1828,  in  New  Haven,  and  died  there  January  2, 
1903.  She  was  a  daughter  of  James  Edmund  Prior  and  Eliza 
Ellen  (Jarman)  Dean  and  a  sister  of  James  Jarman  Dean,  Yale 
'45.  Her  grandfather  came  from  Bristol,  England,  and  her  grand- 
mother from  Wales. 

Elford  Parry  Trowbridge  was  born  in  New  Haven,  September 
16,  1862,  and  has  always  resided  there.     He  was  prepared  at  the 


GRADUATES  405 


Black  Hall  (Conn.)  School  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover. 
He  entered  with  '86,  but  later  joined  our  Class.  In  college  he  was 
a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

After  spending  two  years  in  travel  abroad  and  in  this  country, 
he  entered  the  office  of  the  paymaster  of  the  New  York,  New 
Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Company,  where  he  remained  until 
July,  1893.  He  was  then  appointed  stationer  for  that  company, 
which  position  he  resigned  in  1898  and  purchased  a  controlling 
interest  in  the  Montowese  Brick  Company.  He  subsequently 
acquired  all  its  stock  and  is  now  sole  owner  and  president  of  the 
company. 

He  is  a  Congregationalist  and  in  politics  a  Republican.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Graduates  and  Quinnipiack  clubs  of  New  Haven, 
the  New  Haven  Country  Club,  the  New  Haven  Lawn  Club,  the 
New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society  and  the  Yale  Club  of  New 
York.  Golf,  tennis,  riding  and  driving  are  his  favorite  outdoor 
sports,  while  genealogy  and  collections  are  among  his  other  inter- 
ests. He  has  visited  South  America  and  the  West  Indies. 

He  was  married  October  4,  1904,  in  Lyme,  Conn.,  to  Anna 
Bertha,  daughter  of  Daniel,  Yale  '45,  and  Ellen  (Noyes)  Chad- 
wick,  and  a  sister  of  Ernest  Chadwick,  Yale  '91. 


Francis  Bacon  Trowbridge 

Residence,  353  Temple   Street,   New   Haven,   Conn. 

Francis  B.  Trowbridge  is  the  only  son  of  Thomas  Rutherford  and 
Katherine  (Bacon)  Trowbridge,  who  were  married  November  22, 
1864,  and  had  one  other  child,  Edith  Champion  Trowbridge  (died 
February  28,  1898,  in  Florence,  Italy).  Thomas  Rutherford  Trow- 
bridge was  born  in  New  Haven,  March  3,  1839,  and  died  at  his 
summer  home  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  October  25,  1898.  He  was  the 
son  of  Thomas  Rutherford  Trowbridge,  a  West  India  merchant  of 
New  Haven,  and  great-great-grandson  of  Daniel  Trowbridge,  Yale 
1725.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  went  to  the  West  Indies,  and  in 
Barbados  and  Trinidad  was  connected  with  the  branches  of  his 
father's  firm  in  those  islands,  and  in  March,  1863,  was  appointed 
United  States  consul  in  Trinidad.  He  was  admitted  later  a  mem- 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


FRANCIS    BACOX    TROWBRIDGE 


her  of  the  firm  of  H.  Trowbridge's  Sons,  of  New  Haven,  and  was  a 
man  of  affairs  of  that  city.  He  served  in  both  branches  of  the 
city  council,  was  president  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  in  1886,  first 
president  of  the  Republican  League  Club,  president  of  the  New 
Haven  board  of  harbor  commissioners,  a  director,  secretary  and 
president  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society,  a  director 
of  the  Mechanics  Bank,  president  of  the  Mercantile  Safe  Deposit 
Company,  trustee  of  the  New  Haven  Savings  Bank  and  of  the  New 
Haven  Orphan  Asylum,  and  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution,  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the  New  Haven 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  New  York  Produce  Exchange.  He 
was  the  author  of  several  papers  printed  in  the  "Recollections" 
of  the  Historical  Society,  of  which  "Ancient  Houses  of  New 
Haven/'  and  "Ancient  Maritime  Interests  of  New  Haven,"  are 
the  most  important.  Mr.  Trowbridge  was  a  descendant  in  the 
eighth  generation  of  Thomas  Trowbridge,  a  native  of  Taunton, 
England,  who  was  among  the  early  settlers  of  New  Haven.  Kath- 


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erine  (Bacon)  Trowbridge  was  born  April  18,  1844,  in  Lancaster, 
Pa.,  and  now  resides  in  New  Haven.  She  is  the  daughter  of  Gen- 
eral Francis  Bacon,  Yale  1838,  and  Elizabeth  Sheldon  (Butcher) 
Bacon  and  the  granddaughter  of  Judge  Asa  Bacon,  Yale  1793. 
She  is  descended  from  Michael  Bacon,  who  settled  in  Dedham, 
Mass.,  in  1640. 

Our  classmate  was  born  in  New  Haven,  June  7,  1866,  and  has 
always  resided  there.  He  was  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School.  In  college  he  received  a  second  colloquy  appointment  in 
both  Junior  and  Senior  years,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman 
Glee  Club,  the  Yale  Bicycle  Club  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

The  year  following  graduation  he  pursued  a  course  of  reading 
and  then  entered  the  Yale  Law  School,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1890,  being  at  the  same  time  admitted  to  the  Connecticut 
Bar.  He  did  not,  however,  engage  in  the  active  practice  of  his 
profession,  but  became  associated  with  his  father,  on  the  latter's 
retirement  from  the  West  India  business  early  in  1891,  in  the  man- 
agement of  family  real  estate  and  trust  estates.  He  succeeded  to 
the  latter  at  his  father's  death  and  is  at  present  acting  in  a  fiduciary 
capacity  for  several  estates. 

He  has  given  considerable  attention  to  genealogical  research 
and  has  compiled  four  family  histories:  "The  Champion  Genealogy," 
in  1891,  "The  Hoadley  Genealogy,"  in  1894,  "The  Ashley  Geneal- 
ogy," in  1896,  and  "The  Trowbridge  Genealogy,"  in  1908.  The 
last  is  his  most  important  genealogical  book  and  is  considered 
standard  by  authorities  in  that  field  of  investigation. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  attends  the  Congregational 
church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Quinnipiack  and  Country  clubs 
of  New  Haven,  the  Yale  Club  of  New  York,  and  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  New  Haven.  He  is  a  life  member  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Historic  Genealogical  Society  of  Boston  and  is  a  member  of 
the  American  Historical  Association,  the  New  Haven  Colony  His- 
torical Society,  of  which  he  is  a  director  and  a  member  of  the 
library  committee,  and  the  Connecticut  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution. 

He  was  married  June  30,  1898,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to  Mabel 
Christine,  daughter  of  Helen  Josephine  (Chipman)  Nelson  (died 
March  4,  1915,  in  New  York  City)  and  the  late  James  Augustus 


408  BIOGRAPHIES 


Nelson,  Yale  ex-'73  S.,  a  lawyer,  of  Brooklyn,  and  a  niece  of  John 
F.  Nelson,  Yale  '76.  On  the  maternal  side  Mrs.  Trowbridge  is  a 
descendant  of  Capt.  Thomas  Yale,  uncle  of  Elihu  Yale,  benefactor 
of  Yale  College. 


William  Rutherford  Hayes  Trowbridge 

Author 
Residence,  33  Buckingham  Gate,  London,  S.  W.,  England 

William  R.  H.  Trowbridge  is  the  son  of  William  Rutherford 
Hayes  Trowbridge,  Yale  '63  (died  October  30,  1914),  and  Isabella 
(Nesbit)  Trowbridge.  He  was  born  in  Barbados,  British  West 
Indies,  May  19,  1866,  and  his  boyhood  was  spent  in  the  place  of 
his  birth.  He  acquired  his  early  education  at  Harrison  College, 
Barbados,  one  of  the  best  schools  in  the  West  Indies.  At  four- 
teen he  was  sent  to  the  United  States,  where  he  spent  three  years 
at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and  graduated 
from  Yale  in  1887.  After  an  extended  tour  of  Europe  he  returned 
to  Barbados  and  entered  the  firm  of  Trowbridge  &  Company,  the 
representatives  of  H.  Trowbridge's  Sons  of  New  Haven,  West 
India  merchants.  On  the  closing  of  the  firm's  business  four  years 
later,  he  entered  the  Colonial  Bank  of  London  and  in  the  course  of 
seven  years  was  employed  in  various  responsible  posts  in  nearly 
all  the  bank's  branches  in  the  West  Indies. 

A  strong  desire  for  a  literary  career,  which  during  this  period 
had  manifested  itself  by  the  publication  of  three  books  of  Anglo- 
West  Indian  life,  induced  him  to  resign  his  post  in  the  bank  in 
January,  1900,  when  he  went  to  England  to  make  literature  his 
profession.  Since  that  date  he  has  made  his  home  in  London,  and 
has  published  the  following  books :  "Gossip  of  the  Caribbees," 
1893,  "Children  of  Men,"  1895,  and  "For  the  Vagabond  Hour," 
1896,  Anglo- West  Indian  Sketches;  "The  Letters  of  Her  Mother 
to  Elizabeth,"  1901,  "Her  Grandmother's  Advice  to  Elizabeth," 
1902,  "A  Girl  of  the  Multitude,"  1902,  "The  Caprices  of  a  Royal 
Incognita,"  1902,  "O  Duchess!  A  Trivial  Narrative,"  1903,  "An 
Inarticulate  Genius,"  1903,  "The  Situations  of  Lady  Patricia," 
1904,  "That  Little  Marquis  of  Brandenburg,"  1905,  "A  Dazzling 


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409 


WILLIAM    RUTHERFORD   HAYES   TROWBRIDGE 


Reprobate/'  1906,  "The  White  Hope/'  1913.  His  historical  works 
are  "Court  Beauties  of  Old  Whitehall/'  1906,  "Mirabeau  the  Demi- 
god/' 1907,  "Seven  Splendid  Sinners/'  1908,  "A  Beau  Salveur 
(Life  of  Marshall  Saxe),"  1909,  "The  Sisters  of  Napoleon"  (trans- 
lated from  French  of  Joseph  Turquan),  1909,  "Cagliostro,  the 
Splendor  and  Misery  of  a  Master  of  Magi,"  1910,  and  "Daughters 
of  Eve,"  1911.  He  has  published  in  French,  "Jezabel,  drame  en  un 
acte,  en  prose"  (dedicated  to  Madame  Sarah  Bernhardt  with  her 
consent),  Paris,  1903  (a  German  translation  appearing  in  Vienna 
in  1909). 

Besides  this  literary  work,  he  has  found  time  for  other  things. 
In  December,  1900,  he  received  a  commission  as  lieutenant  in  the 
First  Cadet  Battalion,  Queen's  Royal  West  Surrey  Regiment,  from 
which  he  retired  with  the  rank  of  captain  in  1907.  During  this 
period  he  had  the  unique  experience  of  taking  part  in  the  proces- 
sion of  Queen  Victoria. 

He  has  also  obtained  an  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  condi- 


410  BIOGRAPHIES 


tions  of  the  working  classes  in  London,  having  lived  for  several 
years  at  the  Passmore  Edwards  Settlement  in  that  city,  founded 
under  the  auspices  of  Mrs.  Humphry  Ward. 

His    principal   recreations   are   golfing   and   motoring.      He   is    a 
member  of  the  Royal  Societies  Club,  London,  and  is  unmarried. 


Frank  Day  Tuttle 

Active  Head  of  S.  Turtle's  Son  &  Company,  40  Broadway,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Residence,  55  Rernsen  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Frank  D.  Tuttle  is  a  son  of  Ezra  Benjamin  and  Frances  (Day) 
Tuttle,  who  were  married  in  June,  1857,  and  had  one  other  child: 
Winthrop  Murray  Tuttle.  Ezra  Benjamin  Tuttle  was  born  May 
30,  1834-,  in  New  York  City.  His  paternal  ancestor  came  from 
England  in  1638,  and  settled  in  Boston.  He  is  descended  on  his 
mother's  side  from  Keneln  Winslow  of  England  through  his  son, 
Job  Winslow,  brother  of  Governor  Winslow,  second  governor  of 
Massachusetts.  He  was  educated  at  the  Agricultural  School  of 
Cromwell,  Conn.,  and  in  private  schools  of  New  York  City.  He  is 
president  of  the  Williamsburg  Savings  Bank  and  vice-president  of 
the  Cross-town  Railroad  Company  of  Brooklyn.  Frances  Day 
was  born  in  New  Haven,  in  1832.  Her  maternal  ancestor,  David 
Atwater,  came  from  England  with  Davenport  and  Eaton  in  1638, 
and  settled  in  New  Haven.  She  is  the  great-great-granddaughter 
of  Nathaniel  Turner,  who  served  in  the  Pequot  War,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Jeremiah  Atwater,  a  steward  of  Yale  from  1778 
to  1798. 

Tuttle  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  October  11,  1865.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  the  place  of  his  birth  and  he  was  prepared  at 
the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Institute.  In  college  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Freshman  Baseball  Team,  the  University  Club,  He  Boule, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head. 

Since  1887  he  has  been  in  the  coal  business  in  the  firm  of  S. 
Tuttle's  Son  &  Company,  at  the  present  time  being  active  head. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Franklin  Trust  Company,  of  the  Franklin 
Safe  Deposit  Company,  of  the  Nassau  Electric  Railroad  Company, 
of  the  Coney  Island  &  Brooklyn  Railroad  Company,  of  the  Brook- 


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FRANK   DAY  TUTTLE 


lyn   Coal   Exchange,  having  been  vice-president   and   president   in 
1905-07,,  and  of  the  Brooklyn  Savings  Bank. 

He  is  a  Republican  and  was  a  member  of  the  Anti-Tammany 
Fusion  Committee  of  1907.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  John's  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Children's  Aid 
Society  of  Brooklyn  and  of  the  Eye  and  Ear  Hospital,  chairman 
of  the  financial  committee  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.,  and  a  member  of  the  advisory  committee  of  the  Brooklyn 
Polytechnic  Institute,  of  the  civic  improvement  committee,  citizen's 
committee  and  committee  of  Brooklyn  on  establishing  a  Brooklyn 
University.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Hamilton  Club  and  chairman 
of  its  entertainment  committee,  a  member  of  the  Crescent  Athletic, 
Heights  Casino  and  Union  League  clubs  of  Brooklyn,  the  Uni- 
versity Club  of  New  York  City,  the  Graduates  Club  of  New  Haven, 
the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  and  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  and 
on  the  executive  committee  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Long 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Island.  His  favorite  game  is  tennis  and  his  travels  have  included 
Cuba,  Europe  and  California. 

He  was  married  April  27,  1897,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to  Florence, 
daughter  of  Pierre  and  Lucy  (Henry)  Guertin.  Mrs.  Tuttle  writes 
for  magazines.  They  have  two  children: 

Frank  Day,  Jr.,  born  June  9,  1902,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Winslow  Guertin,  born  April  1,  1904,  in  Lawrence,  Long  Island, 
N.  Y. 


*James  Johnston  Waring,  Jr. 

Died  July  6,  1887 

James  J.  Waring,  Jr.,  was  the  second  son  of  James  Johnston  and 
Mary  B.    (Alston)   Waring,  who  were  married  May  23,   1856,  in 

Washington,  D.  C.,  and  had  six 
other  children.  The  two  other 
sons  attended  Yale,  Pinckney  Al- 
ston Waring,  ex- '81,  and  Thomas 
Pinckney  Waring,  '89.  James 
Johnston  Waring,  Sr.,  was  born 
in  Savannah,  August  19,  1829, 
and  died  there  January  8,  1888. 
He  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  the 
Class  of  1850,  and  studied  medi- 
cine at  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, receiving  the  degree  of 
M.D.  in  1852.  After  a  year's 
hospital  service,  he  spent  two 
years  in  study  abroad  and  then 
started  practicing  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.,  where  he  acquired  a 
large  practice.  In  1857  he  was 
elected  to  the  chair  of  physiology 
and  that  of  obstetrics  in  the 
National  Medical  College.  In 
1861  he  went  south  to  join  his 

family  and  on  his  return  was  arrested  by  the  Confederate  authorities 
and  remanded  on  parole  to  Savannah.     The  result  was  that  he  re- 


JAMES  JOHNSTON   WARING 


GRADUATES 


mained  there  in  the  successful  practice  of  his  profession  for  the  rest 
of  his  life.  His  parents  were  William  R.  Waring,  M.D.,  and  Ann 
(Johnston)  Waring.  Our  classmate's  mother,  Mary  B.  Alston,  was 
the  daughter  of  Col.  Thomas  Pinckney  Alston,  Yale  1814,  and 
Susan  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Alston,  and  niece  of  Jacob  Motte  Alston, 
Yale  1815. 

Waring  was  born  in  Savannah,  Ga.,  March  8,  1865.  He  prepared 
at  Greylock  Institute,  South  Williamstown,  Mass.,  and  received  a 
second  colloquy  appointment  in  Junior  year.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Class  Supper  Committee,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Wolf's 
Head. 

He  was  obliged  to  leave  college  in  the  latter  part  of  February  of 
his  Senior  year  through  a  sudden  attack  of  hemorrhage  from  the 
lungs,  which  weakened  him  very  rapidly.  He  was  then  taken  home 
and  later  to  Asheville,  N.  C.,  where  he  died  July  6,  1887.  He  had  at 
first  hoped  to  return  to  college,  in  time  to  complete  his  work,  and 
in  view  of  his  attainments  his  name  was  presented  for  a  degree 
with  his  Class,  the  news  of  which  fact  had  just  reached  him  before 
his  death. 


William  Xenophon  Weed 

General  Counsel,  Westchester  &  Bronx  Title  &  Mortgage  Guaranty 
Company,  169  Main  Street,  White  Plains,  N.  Y. 

Residence,  147  Waller  Avenue,  White  Plains,  N.  Y. 

William  X.  Weed  is  a  son  of  Alexander  Xenophon  and  Mary 
Eveline  (Scofield)  Weed,  who  were  married  about  1850  and  had 
five  other  children:  Charles  D.,  Franklin  N.,  Theodore  A.,  Mary  L. 
(Weed)  Goldy,  and  Frederick  E.  Weed.  Alexander  Xenophon 
Weed  was  born  November  5,  1822,  at  Stamford,  Conn.,  and  died 
June  20,  1884,  in  that  place.  He  was  of  English  descent.  Mary 
Eveline  Scofield  was  born  June  5,  1829,  in  Stamford,  Conn.,  and 
died  there,  June  5,  1901.  She  was  also  of  English  descent. 

Weed  was  born  at  Stamford,  April  21,  1867,  and  was  prepared 
at  the  Stamford  High  School.  In  college  he  received  a  first  dis- 
pute appointment  in  Junior  year,  a  dissertation  appointment  in 
Senior  year  and  the  Scott  prize  in  German. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


WILLIAM    XENOPHOST    WEED 


Having  studied  at  the  Columbia  Law  School,  he  practiced  law 
in  New  York  until  1901,  during  the  last  five  years  of  which  he  was 
connected  with  the  Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Company,  making  a 
specialty  of  real  estate  law.  He  then  became  managing  attorney 
for  the  Westchester  County  Branch  Office  of  that  company,  at 
White  Plains,  and  is  now  general  counsel  of  that  company  for 
Westchester  County. 

He  is  a  Congregationalist  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican. 

He  was  married  January  18,  1890,  to  Harriet  E.,  daughter  of 
Susan  E.  and  the  late  Holly  Scofield,  of  Stamford.  They  have 
eight  children  living: 

Mildred,  born  November  14,  1890. 

Walter  Irving,  born  March   13,   1894. 

Dorothy,  born  June  10,  1896. 

Constance,  born  July  9,  1897. 

Everett  Scofield,  born  May  23,  1900. 

Eunice,  born  July  13,  1901. 


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415 


Holly  Scofield,  born  February  28,  1903. 

William  Xenophon,  Jr.,  born  August  16,  1904. 

Their  second  child,  Roland  Scofield,  born  June  6,  1892,  died 
March  18,  1896,  and  a  daughter,  Loraine,  born  October  4,  1898, 
died  October  6,  1903. 


mrm 


*Frederic  Roger  Whittlesey 

Died  July  19,  1900 

Frederic  R.  Whittlesey,  youngest  of  the  six  children  of  Francis 
D wight  Whittlesey,  town  clerk  and  judge  of  probate  of  Southing- 
ton,  Conn.,  and  grandson  of 
Roger  Whittlesey,  Yale  1787, 
was  born  in  Southington,  July 
11,  1865.  His  mother  was  Laura 
(Barnes)  Whittlesey,  daughter 
of  Julius  S.  and  Laura  (Lewis) 
Barnes.  He  was  prepared  at  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  in 
New  Haven.  In  college  he  re- 
ceived a  high  oration  Junior 
appointment,  an  oration  Senior 
appointment,  a  second  Berkeley 
premium,  two-year  honors  in 
ancient  languages,  and  was 
elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

The  year  following  graduation 
he  was  principal  of  the  high 
school  in  his  native  town,  but  in 
December,  1888,  he  entered  the 
employ  of  Bennett,  Sloan  & 
Company,  importers  and  jobbers 
of  teas,  etc.,  with  whom  he  con- 
tinued, being  for  several  years  before  his  death  manager  of  their 
tea  department. 

He  died  of  typhoid  fever  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  July  19,  1900. 

He  was  married  June  17,  1890,  in  Bay  Ridge,  N.  Y.,  to  Mary 


FREDERIC    ROGER    WHITTLESEY 


416  BIOGRAPHIES 


Bliss  Kelly,  daughter  of  George  V.  Kelly,  formerly  of  Brooklyn. 
They  had  three  children: 

Clara,  born  April  7,  1891. 

Frederic  Roger,  born  March  14,  1893. 

Anne  Hatheway,  born  October  7,  1895. 

[For  further  biographical  notice,  see  Quindecennial  Record,  pages 
114-115.] 


Frederick  Searle  Woodward 

Electrical  Engineer 
Residence,  3705  Chichester  Avenue,  Richmond  Hill,  Long  Island,  N.  Y. 

Frederick  S.  Woodward  is  a  son  of  William  Searle  and  Mary 
Parkin  (Saltonstall)  Woodward,  who  were  married  May  19,  1851, 
at  Chicago,  111.,  and  had  five  other  children:  William  Rainey,  Mary 
Saltonstall  (died  in  1856),  Cornelia  Whipple  (died  in  1881),  Eliza- 
beth Leverett  (died  in  1895),  and  Clarence  Lindal  Woodward. 
William  Searle  Woodward  was  born  March  16,  1825,  at  Haverhill, 
Vt.,  and  died  August  15,  1890,  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  was  de- 
scended from  John  and  James  Woodward,  who  came  from  Shrop- 
shire, England,  to  Salem,  in  1639,  John  founding  the  Woodward 
family  in  New  England  and  his  brother  James  going  to  Virginia 
and  becoming  the  head  of  that  branch.  Mary  Parkin  Saltonstall  was 
born  October  17,  1831,  in  New  London,  Conn.,  and  is  descended  from 
a  son  of  Sir  Richard  Saltonstall,  also  named  Richard,  who  came  to 
Massachusetts  from  England  in  1630,  to  help  Governor  Winthrop 
manage  the  colonial  grant,  which  stood  in  the  name  of  Sir  Richard. 

Woodward  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  September  19,  1865.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  in  Brooklyn,  where  he  was  prepared  at  Adelphi 
Academy.  In  college  he  received  first  dispute  appointments  in  both 
Junior  and  Senior  years  and  was  a  member  of  the  Pundit  and  Uni- 
versity clubs. 

From  1887  to  1895  he  was  in  various  parts  of  the  West,  including 
Chicago,  Huron,  S.  Dak.,  Soudan,  Minn.,  Tacoma  and  North 
Yakima,  Wash.,  and  Graniteville,  Mo.  In  1895  he  returned  to 
Brooklyn,  where  he  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Edison  Electric  Illu- 
minating Company  until  1901.  He  then  became  connected  with  the 


GRADUATES 


FREDERICK   SEARLE   WOODWARD 


Long  Island  Railroad  as  electrical  engineer  and  remained  in  this 
position  until  January,  1915.  He  has  now  returned  to  the  lighting 
field  but  is  not  as  yet  permanently  located.  He  has  given  some 
study  to  various  subjects  allied  with  electrical  engineering  and  has 
written  articles  which  have  been  published  in  the  proceedings  of  the 
Brooklyn  Engineers'  Club.  He  is  secretary,  treasurer  and  a  director 
of  the  Signature  Company,  Mills  Building,  Broad  Street,  New  York 
City. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church  and  in  politics  is  a 
Republican  with  some  tendency  towards  the  Bull  Moose  party. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Brooklyn  Engineers'  Club,  the  New  York 
Railroad  Club,  the  American  Institute  of  Electrical  Engineers  and 
the  Yale  Club  of  New  York. 

He  was  married  June  4,  1898,  to  Mary  Benedict,  daughter  of 
Edwin  A.  and  Mary  E.  (Hopkins)  Thrall,  of  Brooklyn.  They  have 
three  children  living: 

William  Searle,  born  March  28,  1900,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


418  BIOGRAPHIES 


Marjorie,  born  March  24,  1907,  in  Brooklyn. 
Gurdon  Saltonstall,  born  July  8,  1910. 

Their  second  child,  Frederick  Benedict,  born  July  6,  1902,  died 
at  the  age  of  two  days. 


George  Woodward,  M.D. 

Physician,    Krisheim,    Chestnut    Hill,    Philadelphia,    Pa. 

George  [Stanley]  Woodward  is  a  son  of  Stanley  Woodward, 
Yale  '55,  and  Sallie  R.  (Butler)  Woodward,  who  were  married 
June  3,  1857,  and  had  two  other  children:  Ellen  May  (died  March 
23,  1860)  and  John  Butler  Woodward,  Yale  '83.  Stanley  Wood- 
ward was  born  August  29,  1833,  in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.,  and  died 
there  March  29,  1906.  He  was  the  son  of  the  Hon.  George  Wash- 
ington Woodward,  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  member  of  Congress,  and  of  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Trott) 
Woodward.  After  graduating  from  Yale  in  the  Class  of  1855,  he 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Luzerne  County,  Pa., 
in  1856.  During  the  Civil  War  he  served  in  two  campaigns  with 
the  Pennsylvania  Militia,  in  the  fall  of  1862  in  the  Cumberland 
Valley  as  captain  of  Company  H,  Third  Pennsylvania  Militia,  and 
in  the  summer  of  1863  at  Williamsport  as  captain  of  Company  H, 
Forty-first  Pennsylvania  Militia.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Wyoming  Valley  Historical  and  Geographical  Society  and  for 
eleven  years  its  president.  In  1879  he  was  appointed  judge  of 
Luzerne  County  and  by  election  in  1880  and  reelection  in  1890 
continued  in  that  office  until  1900,  having  been  commissioned  in 
1895  president  judge  of  the  district.  He  was  president  of  the 
Wyoming  Valley  Yale  Alumni  Association  for  many  years.  Sarah 
Richards  (Butler)  Woodward  was  born  March  25,  1835,  in  Wilkes- 
Barre  and  died  March  29,  1909,  in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Col.  John  Lord  and  Cornelia  (Richards)  Butler. 

Woodward  was  born  June  22,  1863,  in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.,  in 
which  place  his  boyhood  was  spent.  He  was  prepared  at  the 
Wilkes-Barre  Academy.  In  college  he  was  president  of  the  Yale 
Glee  Club  and  a  member  of  the  Junior  Prom  Committee,  the  Uni- 
versity Club,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 


GRADUATES 


419 


After  one  year  of  postgraduate  work  at  Sheff,  he  entered  the 
Medical  School  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  where  he  grad- 
uated in  1891.  After  a  year  and  a  half  in  the  German  Hospital  in 
Philadelphia,  he  removed  to  New 
Haven,  where  he  engaged  in 
general  practice  and  was  an 
assistant  in  the  Yale  Medical 
School,  but  returned  to  Phila- 
delphia after  a  short  period.  He 
was  for  a  time  associate  in  the 
William  Pepper  Laboratory  of 
Clinical  Medicine,  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  served  three 
years  as  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Health.  He  is  now  a  mana- 
ger of  the  Germantown  Hos- 
pital and  director  of  the  Octavia 
Hill  Association  and  of  the  Real 
Estate  Trust  Company. 

A  classmate  writes:  "George 
Woodward  has,  I  believe,  been 
doing  some  very  creditable  things 
in  Philadelphia  for  the  better- 
ment of  conditions  among  the 
poor.  I  have  a  memory  of  his 
turning  over  quite  a  parcel  of  real  estate  for  use  in  settlement  work." 

He  has  served  in  the  Philadelphia  Common  Council,  on  the 
Board  of  Health  and  on  the  Citizens'  Permanent  Relief  Com- 
mittee. He  has  been  active  in  behalf  of  municipal  reform  in  Phila- 
delphia, being  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  "Com- 
mittee of  70."  An  account  of  his  work,  from  his  pen,  appeared 
in  the  Outlook  for  December  2,  1905.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Octavia  Hill  Association  for  the  housing  of  the  poor  and  in  the 
Chestnut  Hill  Academy.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Children's  Aid 
Society  and  of  the  Bureau  of  Municipal  Research  and  treasurer  of 
the  Child  Labor  Association.  He  is  an  Episcopalian  and  is  account- 
ing warden  of  St.  Martin's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  Chest- 
nut Hill.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the 


GEORGE    WOODWARD 


420  BIOGRAPHIES 


University  Club,  the  City  Club,  and  the  Philadelphia  and  German- 
town  Cricket  clubs. 

He  was  married  October  9,  1894,  to  Gertrude,  daughter  of  Henry 
H.  and  Sally  S.  (Bonnell)  Houston,  of  Chestnut  Hill,  Philadelphia. 
They  have  five  children: 

Henry  H.  Houston,  born  February  27,  1896. 

George,  Jr.,  born  December  26,  1897. 

Stanley  J.,  born  March  12,  1899. 

Charles  Henry,  born  April  14,  1904. 

Gertrude  Houston,  born  April  21,  1909. 


George  Hurlbut  Young 

Business  address,  25  Liberty  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  179  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City 

George  H.  Young  is  a  son  of  Mason  and  Louise  M.  (Hurlbut) 
Young,  who  were  married  December  10,  1862,  and  had  six  other 
children,  four  daughters  and  two  sons:  William  D.  Young,  Yale 
'92,  and  Mason  Young,  Yale  ex-'97.  Mason  Young,  Yale  '60, 
the  son  of  Henry  and  Anne  (Mason)  Young,  was  born  in  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  May  6,  1838,  and  died  in  New  York  City,  March 
27,  1906.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1862  and  practiced 
his  profession  in  New  York  City  until  about  1887.  After 
leaving  law  practice  in  New  York,  he  lived  for  some  time 
at  St.  Augustine,  Fla.,  and  became  interested  in  railroad  and 
hotel  enterprises.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Corporation  from 
1873  to  1884,  succeeding  Mr.  Joseph  Sheffield.  His  wife,  Louise  M. 
Hurlbut,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Young  was  born  in  New  York  City,  December  9,  1864,  and  was 
prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  at 
Phillips  Andover  Academy.  He  was  a  member  of  Scroll  and  Key 
at  Yale. 

After  graduation  he  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Jacksonville,  Tampa 
&  Key  West  Railroad  at  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  remaining  until  January, 
1894.  From  then  until  October,  1896,  he  was  with  the  Delaware 
&  Hudson  Canal  Company  at  Albany  and  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  as 


GRADUATES 


traveling  freight  and  passenger  agent  of  the  "Erie  Dispatch"  and 
the   "Lackawanna   Line."      From    1896   to    1898   he   was   at   Hard 
Times   Landing,   La.,  as   buyer   and   manager   of  the  large   cotton 
plantations  of  John  M.  Gillespie, 
'87.      In   January,    1898,   he   re- 
moved to   New   York,  where   he 
was  with  the  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance  Company   for  three   years. 
In  November,  1901,  he  resumed 
his    connection    with    Gillespie's 
plantation.    For  some  years  prior 
to    1908   he   was   in   partnership 
with  Gillespie  in  a  cotton-brok- 
ing firm  in  New  Orleans. 

He  has  sent  no  information  for 
this  record. 

He  was  married  February  15, 
J890,  to  Mary  Lang,  daughter 
of  Capt.  William  M.  Gamble, 
U.  S.  N.,  of  Morristown,  N.  J. 
They  have  one  son: 

Edward  Gamble,  born  July  12, 
1891.  GEORGE  HURLBUT  YOUNG 


XOX-GHADUATES    AND    EX-MEMBERS 


Joseph  Xoyes  Babcock 

Finance 
37  WaU  Street,  New  York  City 


JOSEPH   NOYES  BABCOCK 


Joseph  X.  Babcock,  son  of 
Captain  David  S.  Babcock,  was 
born  in  Stonington,  Conn.,  April 
22,  1866.  He  prepared  in  Vevey. 
Switzerland,  and  at  Alexander 
Institute,  White  Plains.  X.  Y. 

He  left  college  at  the  end  of 
Sophomore  year.  After  a  period 
in  the  real  estate  business  in 
Brooklyn,  he  became  connected 
with  the  Colonial  Trust  Com- 
pany. Xew  York  City,  where,  at 
last  report,  he  held  the  position 
of  trust  officer. 

Mrs.  Babcock,  who  was  Alice 
Penlington,  daughter  of  Ernest 
Penlington,  of  London,  England, 
died  on  September  30,  1909.  in 
Mount  Vernon,  X.  Y. 


Philip  Sheridan  Babcock 

Finance 
Room  1204,  5  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City 

Philip  S.  Babcock,  elder  brother  of  Joseph  Xoyes,  was  born  in 
Stonington,  Conn.,  May  31,  1864.  He  remained  with  the  Class  two 
years. 


NON-GRADUATES 


Since  entering  business  he  has 
been  connected  with  the  Central 
Trust  Company  and  the  Colonial 
Trust  Company,  which  he  has 
served  as  vice-president. 

He  was  married  November  8, 
1890,  to  Lillian  B.,  daughter  of 
Sereno  M.  and  Annie  N.  Clark, 
of  White  Plains,  X.  Y.  They 
have  three  children: 

Philip  Sheridan,  Jr.,  born  Au- 
gust 8,  1891. 

Arthur  Clark,  born  May  10, 
1893. 

Charlotte  Xoyes,  born  March 
11,  1895. 


PHILIP  SHERIDAX  BABCOCK 


Albertus  Hutchinson  Baldwin 

Commercial  Attache  to  London,  care  Department  of  Commerce  and  Labor, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Permanent  address,  Cosmos  Club,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Albertus  H.  Baldwin  is  a  son  of  Elijah  Clark  and  Frances  Marsh 
(Hutchinson)  Baldwin,  who  were  married  June  3,  1862,  and  had 
three  other  children:  Edward  Robinson,  M.D.  Yale  '90,  Ernest 
Hickok,  Yale  '91,  M.A.  '97,  Ph.D.  '01,  lecturer  in  history,  1902-04, 
and  Elijah  Baldwin  (died  in  1874,  in  Branford,  Conn.).  Elijah 
Clark  Baldwin  was  born  December  4,  1833,  in  Milford,  Conn.,  and 
died  April  27,  1890,  in  Cheshire,  Conn.  He  was  descended  from 
John  Baldwin,  one  of  the  settlers  of  Milford,  Conn.,  who  came 
from  England  in  1652.  He  graduated  from  Union  Theological 
Seminary  in  1860  and  was  a  Congregational  clergyman  from  that 
time  until  his  death.  He  was  previously  married,  in  May,  1855,  to 
Julia  Childs,  who  died  leaving  him  one  daughter,  Julia  Childs 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Baldwin  (died  February  2,  1894).  Our  classmate's  mother,  Frances 
Marsh  Hutchinson,  was  born  May  29,  1839,  in  Haddam,  Conn., 

and  is  of  English  descent,  her 
ancestors  having  settled  in  Con- 
necticut about  1670. 

Baldwin  was  born  in  Bran- 
ford,  Conn.,  December  14,  1865. 
His  boyhood  was  spent  in  New 
Haven,  where  he  was  prepared 
at  the  Hillhouse  High  School. 
He  left  college  near  the  close  of 
Freshman  year. 

From  1884  to  1887  he  was  in 
the  employ  of  the  United  States 
Fish  Commission  at  Washington, 
D.  C.,  and  at  Woods  Hole,  Mass. 
He  studied  drawing  and  painting 
in  Paris  from  1887  to  1889,  at 
which  time  he  returned  to  Wash- 
ington and  was  employed  in 
illustrating  reports  of  the  Fish 
Commission  and  other  scientific 
bureaus  of  the  Government.  He 
made  some  reputation  as  a 

painter  of  ichthyological  subjects.  He  took  part  in  the  preparation 
of  the  Department  of  Commerce  and  Labor  exhibit  at  St.  Louis  in 
1904  and  represented  that  department  at  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expo- 
sition at  Portland,  Ore.,  in  1905.  From  1906  to  1909  he  was  em- 
ployed in  the  Post  Office  Department,  which  department  he  repre- 
sented at  the  Seattle  Exposition  in  1909.  In  that  year  he  became 
chief  clerk  of  the  Bureau  of  the  Census;  in  1910,  chief  clerk  of  the 
Department  of  Commerce  and  Labor,  and  the  same  year  chief  of  the 
Bureau  of  Manufactures.  When  that  bureau  was  combined  with 
the  Bureau  of  Statistics  in  1911,  he  was  made  chief  of  the  new 
Bureau  of  Foreign  and  Domestic  Commerce.  He  has  had  adminis- 
trative direction  of  the  issuance  of  Daily  Consular  and  Trade  Re- 
ports, Monthly  Summary  of  Commerce  and  Finance,  Commerce  and 
Navigation  of  the  United  States,  Statistical  Abstract,  Commercial 


ALBERTUS   HUTCHINSOX   BALDWIN 


NON-GRADUATES  425 


Relations,  and  many  special  bulletins.  In  the  fall  of  1914  he  was 
appointed  commercial  attache  to  London,  and,  on  the  eve  of  his 
departure,  was  presented  with  a  silver  service  by  the  employees 
of  the  Bureau  of  Foreign  and  Domestic  Commerce. 

In  politics  he  is  a  progressive  Republican.  He  has  traveled 
throughout  the  United  States  and  extensively  outside  of  this  coun- 
try, having  been  to  Italy  in  1888,  Porto  Rico  in  1899,  France  in 
1900,  Hawaii  in  1901,  Alaska  in  1903,  and  to  the  Bahamas  in 
1904.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Cosmos  Club  and  was  for  four  years 
on  its  board  of  managers,  was  acting  secretary  and  on  the  admis- 
sion committee  and  chairman  of  the  art  committee.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Chevy  Chase  Club,  the  National  Society  of  Arts, 
the  Washington  Water  Color  Society,  the  American  Academy  of 
Political  and  Social  Science,  and  the  American  Statistical  Associa- 
tion. 

He  was  married  November  30,  1910,  in  West  Falls  Church,  Va., 
to  Grace  Gertrude,  daughter  of  George  and  Katherine  (Haywood) 
Greene. 

Charles  Francis  Baldwin 

Farmer,  Woodlake  Farm,  Blantyre,  Transylvania  County,  N.  C. 

Charles  F.  Baldwin  is  a  son  of  Charles  and  Louisa  Williams 
(McArdle)  Baldwin,  who  were  married  October  13,  1860,  and  had 
three  other  children:  Ralph  H.,  Edward  A.  and  Florence  Baldwin. 
Charles  Baldwin  was  born  August  16,  1829,  in  Barkhamsted,  Conn., 
and  died  August  20,  1882,  in  Block  Island.  He  was  a  lawyer, 
practicing  for  the  most  part  at  Princeton,  111.  He  is  descended 
from  John  Baldwin,  one  of  the  settlers  of  Milford,  Conn.  Louisa 
Williams  McArdle  was  born  January  26,  1839,  in  Norwalk,  Ohio, 
and  died  in  July,  1886,  in  Princeton,  111.  Her  father  was  born  in 
the  north  of  Ireland  and  came  to  this  country  in  1791. 

Baldwin  was  born  in  Princeton,  111.,  August  10,  1865,  and  was 
prepared  at  the  high  school  of  that  place.  He  graduated  from 
college  with  the  Class  of  '88,  having  left  '87  at  the  end  of  Junior 
year.  He  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  studied  for  two  years  at  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  and  went  from  there  to  East  Tennessee.  After  recovering 


426  BIOGRAPHIES 


from  an  illness  he  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  was  a  commission 
merchant  and  on  the  Board  of  Trade  until  1896.  He  then  went 
into  business  for  himself  but  his  health  failed,  and  being  obliged  to 
give  up  business,  he  bought  about  seven  hundred  acres  of  farming 
and  timber  land  in  Blantyre,  N.  C.,  and  is  now  engaged  in  agricul- 
ture. He  says  that  he  would  be  a  Progressive  if  there  were  such 
a  party  in  that  part  of  the  country. 

He  was  married  June  18,  1896,  at  Chicago,  111.,  to  Lillian  M., 
daughter  of  George  W.  and  Mary  E.   (Williams)   Simpson. 


*  Albert  William  Barnum 

Died  August  20,  1903 

Albert  W.  Barnum,  son  of  William  H.  Barnum,  was  born  in 
Chester,  111.,  August  9,  1864.  At  the  time  he  entered  college  his 
home  was  in  Evanston,  111.  He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  and  was  with  the  Class  during  Freshman  and  Sophomore 
years. 

He  graduated  from  Union  College  of  Law  in  Chicago  and  prac- 
ticed his  profession  in  that  city  until  his  death.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Barnum,  Humphrey  &  Barnum. 

While  swimming  in  Lake  Michigan,  at  Walloon,  he  was  drowned 
August  20,  1903. 

He  was  married  in  October,  1894,  to  Emma  D.,  daughter  of  A.  C. 
Rawson,  of  Louisville,  Ky.  One  child  died  in  infancy. 


Thomas  Livingston  Bayne 

Farmer 
Manchester,  N.  C. 

Thomas  L.  Bayne  is  a  son  of  Thomas  Levingston  and  Mary 
(Gayle)  Bayne,  who  were  married  in  1853.  A  younger  son,  Hugh 
Aiken  Bayne,  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1892  and  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  at  Tulane  University  in  1894.  Thomas  L.  Bayne, 
Sr.,  was  born  in  Clinton,  Ga.,  August  4,  1826,  and  died  in  New 
Orleans,  La.,  December  11,  1891.  He  was  graduated  at  Yale  in 


NON-GRAD  UA  TES  427 


1847,  and  then  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  New  Orleans,  being 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1850.  In  1862  he  joined  the  Washington 
Artillery  of  New  Orleans,  in  the  Confederate  service,  as  a  private, 
and  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Shiloh.  He  was  later  appointed 
captain  for  gallant  conduct  and  by  subsequent  promotions  reached 
the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he 
resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  New  Orleans,  where  he 
gained  a  reputation  as  a  leading  lawyer  of  the  state.  Our  class- 
mate's mother,  Mary  Gayle,  was  the  daughter  of  Governor  John 
Gayle,  of  Alabama. 

Bayne  was  born  July  24,  1865,  in  Cambridge,  Md.,  and  prepared 
at  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven.  He  left  college  in 
Sophomore  year. 

He  returned  to  New  Orleans  and  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law 
and  subsequently  the  real  estate  business.  In  1900  he  removed  to 
Russellville,  Tenn.,  where  he  became  actively  engaged  in  the  breed- 
ing of  high  grade  poultry  and  swine.  He  is  now  following  the  same 
line  of  work  in  Manchester,  N.  C. 

He  was  married  in  March,  1891,  to  Gretchen  Muller,  daughter  of 
William  and  Caroline  (Nicholas)  Muller,  of  New  Orleans.  They 
have  three  children: 

Thomas  Livingston,  Jr.,  Yale  ex-' IS  S.,  born  in  1891. 

William  M.,  born  in  1893. 

Edith,  born  in  1904. 


Eli  Beers 

5488  Ellis  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 

Eli  Beers  was  born  at  Bridgewater,  Conn.,  June  12,  1856,  the 
son  of  Chauncey  A.  and  Laura  (Dunning)  Beers.  His  boyhood 
was  spent  at  Bridgewater,  Conn.,  and,  having  prepared  for  college 
at  Andover,  he  joined  the  Class  of  '87  at  the  beginning  of  Sopho- 
more year.  At  its  close,  having  passed  both  Sophomore  and  Junior 
examinations,  he  moved  up  into  '86,  with  which  Class  he  completed 
the  course  and  graduated. 

He  graduated  from  the  Yale  School  of  Religion  in  1889.  He 
next  preached  for  four  years  in  Anamosa,  Iowa,  and  then  spent 


428  BIOGRAPHIES 


one  year  in  the  Emerson  College 
of  Oratory,  in  Boston.  Since 
then  he  has  devoted  himself 
mainly  to  the  study  of  the  physi- 
cal  and  mental  causes  of  disease 
and  of  the  cure  of  the  same 
through  hygienic  agencies.  He 
has  lectured  extensively  on  these 
subjects,  and  is  preparing  a 
treatise  for  publication.  For  an 
interval  of  four  years  he  was  in 
Bridgewater,  Conn.,  attending 
mainly  to  his  father's  affairs, 
and  he  spent  the  greater  part  of 
1903  traveling  in  New  Mexico 
and  Mexico.  He  is  now  located 
in  Chicago. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Congre- 
ELI  BEERS  gational  church. 


*Francis  Bergstrom 

Died  August  12,  1912 

Francis  Bergstrom  was  born  at  Wermland,  Sweden,  March  27, 
1859,  the  son  of  Nils  and  Lena  K.  (Edberg)  Bergstrom.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and  he  was  prepared  at 
Andover.  He  left  '87  in  Freshman  year,  and,  returning  to  college 
the  next  year,  completed  the  course  and  graduated  with  '88. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  Minneapolis  a  year  in  the 
office  of  Shaw,  Best  &  Cray,  and  in  the  University  of  Minnesota 
Law  School.  The  following  year  he  was  a  student  in  the  Harvard 
Law  School.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  Bar  July  30, 
1890,  at  East  Cambridge,  and  at  once  began  practice  in  Minneap- 
olis, where  he  gained  distinction  in  his  profession.  He  also  became 
well  known  throughout  the  state  as  a  Republican  campaign  orator. 

In  1896  he  published  a  directory  of  graduates  of  Yale  College 
in  the  practice  of  law. 


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Bergstrom  removed  to  Worcester,  Mass.,  in  1904,  where  he 
continued  the  practice  of  law.  He  was  vice-president  of  the  Thule 
Building  Association.  He  was  a  trustee  and  deacon  of  the  Central 
Congregational  Church,  and  a  willing  helper  in  its  activities. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Worcester  from  gas  asphyxiation,  August 
12,  1912.  He  had  been  for  months  suffering  from  a  nervous  break- 
down. He  was  buried  in  West  Parish  Cemetery,  Andover,  Mass. 

He  married  at  Andover,  Mass.,  June  14,  1894,  Gertrude,  daugh- 
ter of  J.  Warren  and  Eliza  Jane  (Foster)  Barnard.  They  had 
two  children,  one  dying  in  infancy. 

Phillips  Barnard,  born  at  Minneapolis,  October  1,  1899. 


William  Bascom  Bissell,  M.D. 

Physician,  Lakeville,  Conn. 

William  B.  Bissell,  son  of  William  Bissell,  M.D.,  was  born  in 
Lakeville,  Conn.,  May  6,  1865.  He  prepared  for  college  at  the 
South  Berkshire  Institute.  After  being  with  '87  for  a  short  time, 
he  left  college  and  reentered  with  '88.  He  received  a  second 
colloquy  appointment  in  Junior  and  Senior  years. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons in  New  York  City  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  there- 
from in  1892.  He  took  up  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Lake- 
ville, where  he  was  appointed  physician  to  the  State  Institution 
for  Imbeciles  and,  in  1897,  became  medical  examiner  for  the  town 
of  Salisbury.  He  is  successfully  practicing  medicine  at  Lakeville 
and  was  appointed  physician  for  the  Hotchkiss  School  in  1912. 

He  was  married,  on  September  25,  1894,  at  Woodbury,  Conn., 
to  Harriette  Elizabeth  Bacon,  a  great-granddaughter  of  Dr.  Jona- 
than Knight,  B.A.  Yale  1808,  M.D.  1818,  professor  of  surgery  in 
the  Yale  Medical  School,  and  has  two  children: 

Elizabeth  Knight,  born  March  14,  1898. 

Mary  Ronebery,  born  January  4,  1905. 

[From  the  Quarter-Century  Record,  Class  of  1888.] 


430  BIOGRAPHIES 


James  Philip  Booth 

Publicist-journalist,  Press  Club,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

James  P.  Booth  is  a  son  of  Edward  and  Helena  (Hallaran) 
Booth,  who  were  married  March  10,  1851,  and  had  seven  other 
children:  George  Washington,  B.A.  Emory  and  Henry  (Va.)  Col- 
lege '72,  William  Fraser,  B.A.  Emory  and  Henry  College  '76, 
LL.B.  Yale  '78,  Edward  Hallaran,  B.S.  Emory  and  Henry  '78, 
Yale  ex-'80  S.,  C.E.  Columbian  University,  Washington,  '88  (died 
in  Takoma  Park,  Md.,  August  12,  1895),  Joseph  (died  in  New 
Orleans,  August  25,  1855),  Rachel  Helena  (died  in  New  Orleans, 
June  7,  1863),  Helena  Hallaran  (died  in  New  Orleans,  September 
15,  1870)  and  Elizabeth  Honora  Booth,  Whitworth  College,  Brook- 
haven,  Miss.  Edward  Booth  was  born  September  10,  1825,  in 
Bolton,  England,  and  died  in  New  Orleans,  May  22,  1896.  He  was 
a  wholesale  hat  merchant  for  fifty  years  in  New  Orleans.  He  took 
an  active  part  in  public  affairs  and  was  a  versatile  writer  and 
an  eloquent  public  speaker.  He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Representatives  of  Louisiana,  an  alderman  at  large  and  chairman 
of  the  finance  committee  of  New  Orleans  and  the  author  of  the 
New  Orleans  city  charter.  Helena  Hallaran  was  born  January  3, 
1826,  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  and  died  April  22,  1890,  in  New  Orleans, 
and  was  of  Irish  parentage.  She  was  a  teacher  in  the  New  Orleans 
public  schools  and  was  an  effective  worker  in  many  charitable 
organizations. 

Booth  was  prepared  at  the  University  of  Louisiana,  New  Orleans, 
and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School.  He  left  college  in  his  Sopho- 
more year  and  graduated  from  the  University  of  California  in  1888. 
He  writes: 

"On  leaving  Yale  I  worked  as  cashier  in  my  native  city,  New 
Orleans,  for  my  father,  Edward  Booth,  wholesale  hat  merchant. 
Of  a  Bohemian  temperament,  mercantile  life  wearied  me  so  I  came 
to  San  Francisco  for  variety.  I  got  it  as  editor  and  part  owner 
of  a  daily  newspaper,  also  as  a  reform  alderman  for  ten  years.  I 
fairly  bubble  with  variety,  plus  a  lot  of  hard  work,  as  a  syndicate 
journalist  with  a  toy  syndicate  of  my  own.  My  home  is  a  soulful 
bungalow  on  Balboa  Avenue  facing  the  Pacific  Ocean.  It  has  wide 


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431 


southern  porches,  a  big  open  fireplace  of  three  thousand  bricks 
with  a  Yale  banner  in  the  center  of  it.  I  sleep  on  the  porch  and 
eat  when  I  have  the  price.  I  returned  to  New  Haven  after  twenty- 
five  years  and  had  to  hire  a 
guide.  A  strange  lump  came 
into  my  throat  at  the  sight  of  the 
old  place.  At  the  second  visit  at 
the  alumni  luncheon  there  was  a 
different  kind  of  a  lump  in  my 
neck.  On  the  platform  were 
William  Howard  Taft,  William 
Kent  and  J.  P.  Morgan.  In  this 
contest  of  conservatism  and  pro- 
gressivism,  Taft  had  the  heft, 
Kent  the  nerve  and  Morgan  win- 
ning by  a  nose. 

"The  mild  movement  of  the 
earth  that  we  had  in  San  Fran- 
cisco in  April,  1906,  was  nothing 
to  the  three  annual  baseball 
games  in  1892,  1893  and  1894 
between  men  from  Yale  and  sun- 
dry persons  from  a  small  college 
in  Cambridge,  Mass.  Yale  cour- 
teously allowed  Harvard  to  win 

the  first  two  games  but  captured  the  third  and  would  have  won  others 
but  there  were  no  more.  Of  course  '87  ran  the  thing.  Ben  Romaine 
held  a  butterfly  net  in  left  field,  I  played  first  base,  John  Norton 
Pomeroy  radiated  intellectuality  from  the  bench  and  Billy  Kent 
paid  for  our  suits.  Another  angel  was  Will  Crocker,  the  leading 
banker  of  the  city.  Superb  was  the  coaching  parade  up  Market 
Street.  We  outcoached  Harvard  though  they  got  more  newspaper 
attention  because  one  of  their  coaches  overturned  and  broke  a 
judge's  leg.  We  were  not  suspected. 

"Despite  the  high  cost  of  living,  I  am  glad  to  be  alive.  My  life 
has  been  a  pleasant  one  with  more  joys  than  glooms.  It  was  a 
happy  start  to  enter  with  Yale  1887,  the  best  class  ever,  from  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School,  with  Kent,  Thacher,  Bayne,  Goodwin, 


JAMES    PHILIP    BOOTH 


488  BIOGRAPHIES 


Coxe,  Haven,  the  Trowbridges,  Bowers,  Berkele,  Whittlesey  and 
others. 

"For  more  than  twenty-five  years  I  have  lived  all  over  San 
Francisco;  always  moved  voluntarily  until  April  18,  1906,  when  a 
daybreak  earthquake  moved  me  suddenly  from  the  Press  Club  to 
Telegraph  Hill,  whence  the  fire  moved  me  to  Berkeley.  It  was  my 
move  and  I  stood  not  on  the  order  of  my  going.  My  travels  include 
a  few  trips  to  Oakland  and  to  Kent's  home  at  the  foot  of  Mt. 
Tamalpais  near  Muir  woods,  his  gift  to  the  nation.  Lawn  tennis 
and  sawing  are  my  recreations.  I  like  the  Dumas  novels  and  ignore 
the  five-foot  bookshelf  of  President  Eliot.  I  have  no  special  inter- 
ests. Guiltless  of  plans  and  specifications,  I  aim  to  get  the  most 
out  of  life  by  hewing  close  to  the  line  of  least  resistance.  Accom- 
plishing this,  I  seek  no  other  accomplishment." 

In  politics  Booth  is  a  Democrat  and  has  served  on  the  board  of 
supervisors  of  San  Francisco  for  five  terms.  He  was  a  director, 
vice-president  and  president  of  the  San  Francisco  Press  Club, 
president  of  the  Monticello  Club  and  of  the  California  Football 
Association  and  vice-president  of  the  University  of  California  Club. 
He  has  been  reporter,  telegraph  editor,  editorial  writer  and  manag- 
ing editor  of  the  Daily  Evening  Report  of  San  Francisco  and  a 
syndicate  editorial  writer  and  correspondent. 

He  has  not  married. 


*Clayton  Harcourt  Brigham 

Died  July  28,   1897 

Clayton  H.  Brigham,  the  fourth  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Brig- 
ham,  and  brother  of  William  S.  Brigham,  '87,  was  born  in  Savan- 
nah, Ga.,  January  15,  1866.  He  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School, 
Concord,  N.  H.,  entering  Yale  with  '87.  He  later  joined  '88,  with 
which  Class  he  received  his  degree.  He  was  a  member  of  the  '88 
Freshman  Baseball  Team,  Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and 
Key. 

After  graduation  he  took  a  course  in  assaying  at  the  School  of 


NON-GRADUATES  433 


Mines  in  Columbia  College,  and  then  went  to  California  for  two 
years  as  an  assayer.  On  returning  to  the  East  he  engaged  in 
business  as  a  stockbroker  in  New  York,  and  while  on  a  visit  to 
his  native  city  he  died  very  suddenly  from  heart  failure  in  Savan- 
nah, on  July  28,  1897. 
He  was  not  married. 


William  Barrett  Brinsmade,  M.D. 

Physician,  117  Montague  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Residence,  166  Columbia  Heights,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

William  B.  Brinsmade,  son  of  James  Beebee  and  Jennie  Newman 
Brinsmade,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  December  24,  1861.  He 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Institute  and  at 
Wilton,  Conn.  He  remained  with  the  Class  two  years,  leaving 
during  the  second  year  on  account  of  an  attack  of  typhoid  fever. 
A  brother  graduated  with  '96  S.,  and  nephews  graduated  with  1906, 
1910,  1911  and  1912.  He  was  president  of  the  University  Club 
in  Senior  year  and  was  a  member  of  He  Boule,  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

After  graduation  he  traveled  for  one  year  and  then  studied  at 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City,  receiving 
the  degree  of  M.D.  therefrom  in  1891.  He  then  spent  some  time 
as  interne  in  two  New  York  hospitals  and,  in  1894,  he  opened  an 
office  in  Brooklyn.  In  1898  he  was  chief  assistant  surgeon  to 
St.  John's  Hospital  and  adjunct  obstetrician  at  the  Brooklyn 
Hospital.  In  1904  he  was  also  instructor  in  surgical  diagnosis  and 
operative  surgery  in  the  Long  Island  College  Hospital,  and  in  1908 
was  professor  of  clinical  surgery  there,  a  position  he  still  holds. 
He  has  written  a  number  of  articles  for  professional  journals.  He 
is  now  surgeon  to  the  Long  Island  College  Hospital  and  to  St. 
John's  Hospital. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church. 

[From  the  Quarter-Century  Record,  Class  of  1888.] 


484  BIOGRAPHIES 


*Henry  Wade  Bruorton 

Died  in  1885 

Left  the  Class  in  ill  health 
Sophomore  year  and  died  in 
Brooklyn  in  the  summer  of 
1885. 


HENRY  WADE   BRUORTON 


John  Christopher  Burch 

Advertising  Agent,  Commercial  Publishing  Company,  Commercial  Appeal, 

Memphis,  Tenn. 

Residence,  1460  Court  Avenue,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

John  C.  Burch  is  a  son  of  John  Christopher  Burch,  Yale  '47,  and 
Lucy  (Newell)  Burch,  who  were  married  in  1850  and  had  five 
other  children:  Katherine  (Burch)  Warner,  who  studied  at  Vassar 
in  1876;  Mary  (Burch)  Schiff,  Vassar  '79;  Charles  Newell  Burch, 
Vanderbilt  '89,  Robert  L.  Burch,  Vanderbilt  '92,  and  Lucius 
Edward  Burch,  Vanderbilt  '96,  and  M.D.  Kings  College,  London, 
'98.  John  Christopher  Burch,  Sr.,  was  born  in  August,  1827,  in 
Macon,  Ga.,  and  died  August  27,  1881,  in  Washington,  D.  C.  He 
was  the  son  of  Morton  N.  and  Mary  (Ballard)  Burch  and  was  of 
English  descent  on  both  sides.  He  was  a  lawyer  and  was  speaker 
of  the  Tennessee  State  Senate,  editor  of  the  Nashville  American, 
colonel  in  the  Confederate  Army,  comptroller  of  the  state  of 


NON-GRADUATES  435 


Tennessee  and  secretary  of  the  United  States  Senate  from  1879 
to  1881.  Lucy  (Newell)  Burch  was  born  in  April,  1833,  in 
Virginia,  and  died  September  6,  1897,  in  Nashville,  Tenn.  She  was 
a  descendant  of  John  Whitman,  who  came  from  England  to  Wey- 
mouth,  Mass.,  in  the  early  part  of  the  seventeenth  century.  She 
attended  college  in  Virginia  and  wrote  stories  and  articles  for 
magazines. 

Burch  was  born  September  16,  1866,  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  and 
spent  his  boyhood  in  that  place.  He  was  prepared  in  the  Vander- 
bilt  Preparatory  School,  Nashville,  Tenn.,  and  in  the  Emerson 
Institute,  Washington,  D.  C.  He  left  college  at  the  close  of 
Sophomore  year. 

He  has  been  in  the  newspaper  business  practically  all  of  his  life, 
filling  at  one  time  or  another  almost  every  position  on  a  newspaper. 
He  was  at  one  time  connected  with  the  Cumberland  Telegraph  & 
Telephone  Company  and  was  director  of  a  bank  and  of  several 
other  corporations  in  Nashville,  besides  being  a  stockholder  in 
many  manufacturing  and  mining  companies.  In  October,  1905,  he 
removed  to  Memphis,  where  he  was  a  broker  in  bonds  and  stocks 
and  where  he  is  now  advertising  agent  for  the  Commercial 
Publishing  Company. 

He  is  an  Episcopalian  and  in  politics  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  of  the  Concatenated  Order 
of  Hoo-Hoo.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Hermitage  Club  of  Nashville 
and  a  member  of  several  other  social  clubs ;  he  was  for  a  number 
of  years  president  of  the  Capitol  Club  of  Nashville. 

He  has  visited  Europe  three  times,  twice  on  pleasure  and  once 
on  business,  and  has  visited  nearly  every  important  city  east  of  the 
Mississippi  River.  He  is  interested  in  football,  baseball  and  fishing. 
He  has  written  innumerable  articles  for  the  daily  press. 

He  was  married  January  15,  1895,  in  Nashville,  to  Elizabeth 
Childress,  daughter  of  John  C.  Brown,  governor  of  Tennessee 
from  1870  to  1874,  general  counsel  of  the  Gould  Lines,  1875-81, 
president  of  the  Texas  &  Pacific  Railway,  1881-86,  and  Elizabeth 
(Childress)  Brown.  She  died  in  August,  1904,  leaving  one  son: 

John  C.  Brown,  born  May  18,  1898,  now  attending  the  Memphis 
Public  High  School. 

He  was  again  married,  November  2,  1909,  to  Kathleen,  daughter 


436  BIOGRAPHIES 


of  William  Battle  Malone,  officer  in  the  Confederate  Army  under 
General  N.  B.  Forrest,  for  a  number  of  years  in  the  cotton  and 
commission  business  in  Brownsville  and  later  in  Memphis,  and 
Ella  Kathleen  (Barbee)  Malone.  They  have  two  children: 

Charles  Newell,  II,  born  August  25,  1910. 

Chloe  Malone,  born  June  20,  1912. 

John  Henry  Carson 

140  East  Sixty-second  Street,  New  York  City 

John  H.  Carson  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  April  23,  1864. 
His  mother  was  Mrs.  Matilda  Graydon  Carson.  He  prepared  at 
St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  left  at  the  end  of  the  first 
term  of  Freshman  year.  For  the  past  five  years  he  has  resided 
at  140  East  Sixty-second  Street,  New  York  City. 

Percy  Walker  Dana 

Volcano,  Amador  County,  Calif. 

Percy  W.  Dana,  son  of  Wilton  Dana,  was  born  in  Fryeburg, 
Maine,  July  15,  1864.  He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  New  Haven,  his  family  residing  in  that  city  at  the  time. 
He  left  college  in  Freshman  year  and  nothing  more  has  been  heard 
of  him.  The  address  given  above  was  recently  secured  from  a 
resident  in  his  birthplace. 

^Stephen  Howard  Dennen 

Left  the  Class  in  the  spring  of  1884.  It  is  understood  that  he 
died  in  1889  or  1890. 

John  Rice  Eldridge,  M.D. 

2817  Garber  Street,  Berkeley,  Calif. 

John  R.  Eldridge  was  born  September  19,  1864,  in  Milford, 
Mass.,  the  son  of  Rufus  Coffin  Eldridge.  He  prepared  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  left  Yale  at  the  end  of  Sophomore 
year.  He  was  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1888. 


NON-GRADUATES 


437 


Charles  Schmeck  Foos 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  School  Administration  Building,  Reading,  Pa. 
Residence,  1528  Mineral  Spring  Road,  Reading,  Pa. 

Charles  S.  Foos  is  a  son  of  George  and  Catharine  (Schmeck) 
Foos,  who  had  four  other  children:  Cyrus  (died  in  Reading  in 
1868),  James  (died  in  Reading  in  1896),  Lillian  and  Katharine 
Foos.  George  Foos  was  born  January  31,  1838,  and  died  in 
November,  1906.  He  was  of 
German  ancestry  and  was  a 
carpenter  and  builder.  Catha- 
rine Schmeck  was  born  in  Berne, 
Berks  County,  Pa.,  November 
19,  1838,  and  died  in  August, 
1894.  She  was  also  of  German 
descent. 

Foos  was  prepared  at  the 
Boys'  High  School,  Reading, 
Pa.,  and  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  New  Haven,  Conn.  He 
left  college  in  1884  and  has  since 
been  located  in  Reading.  For 
two  years  after  leaving  college 
he  was  a  reporter  on  the  Reading 
Eagle,  and  was  instructor  and 
principal  in  Union  Academy, 
Morganfield  (1887-88)  and  in 
Stewart  Academy,  Reading 
(1888-89),  supervising  principal 

of  schools  in  Orwigsburg,  Pa.  (1889-90),  instructor  in  Boys'  High 
School,  Reading  (1890-99),  principal  of  Boys'  High  School  (1899- 
1902)  and  superintendent  of  schools  of  Reading  (1902  to  date). 
He  received  an  honorary  M.A.  from  Lafayette  College  in  1899  and 
an  honorary  Doctor  of  Pedagogy  from  Muhlenberg  College  in 
1912. 


CHARLES  SCHMECK  Foos 


438  BIOGRAPHIES 


In  politics  he  is  an  Independent  Republican  and  has  frequently 
been  a  delegate  to  county  and  state  conventions.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Trade,  has  been  identified  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
for  thirty-three  years,  and  was  for  many  years  director  of  the 
evening  educational  work  and  a  member  of  the  board  of  managers. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  has  served  as 
Sunday  school  superintendent.  He  is  a  member  of  the  National 
Educational  Association,  being  temporary  president  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Administration  in  1905,  a  member  of  the  committee  on 
resolutions  in  1906  and  vice-president  in  1910,  and  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania State  Educational  Association,  being  a  member  of  the 
legislative  committee  in  1900,  president  of  the  high  school  depart- 
ment in  1903,  member  of  executive  committee  in  1905-10,  presi- 
dent of  the  State  Teachers'  Association  in  1908-09,  president  of 
the  National  Federation  of  State  Teachers'  Associations  in  1909 
and  reelected  for  three  years  in  1910  and  again  in  1913  for  three 
years,  vice-president  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Educational 
Association,  1909-10,  and  president  of  the  Department  of  City 
Superintendents  in  1910.  He  is  a  Knight  Templar,  past  eminent 
commander,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  past  master  and  repre- 
sentative to  Grand  Lodge,  Royal  Arcanum,  past  president,  Sons 
of  Veterans,  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America,  Independent  Order 
of  Americus,  representative  to  National  Convention  for  ten  suc- 
cessive years,  Knights  of  Maccabees  of  the  World,  Tuesday  Club 
(local  organization),  president  for  two  terms;  Berkshire  Country 
Club,  Pennsylvania  Tennis  Club,  president  for  several  years,  and 
the  Press  Club. 

He  was  married  November  28,  1895,  to  Mary  Van  Emburgh, 
daughter  of  Garrett  Hopper  and  Maranda  (Van  Emburgh) 
Demarest.  She  attended  Vassar  College  in  1892-93.  They  have 
four  children: 

Irvin  Demarest,  born  August  25,  1896. 

Frances  Alice,  born  January  11,  1900. 

Charles  George,  born  February  8,   1902. 

Florence  Demarest,  born  June  6,  1905. 


NON-GRADUATES 


439 


William  Nettles  Goodwin 

Lawyer 
Beverly  Hills  Hotel,  Beverly  Hills,  Calif. 

William  N.  Goodwin  was  born  in  Quincy,  Calif.,  March  11,  1864, 
the  son  of  John  Daniel  Goodwin.  He  prepared  at  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  and  was  with  '87  during  Freshman  year,  later 
joining  '88  for  a  part  of  a  year. 
He  was  half-back  on  the  '88 
Freshman  Football  Eleven  and 
also  played  on  the  University 
Team.  On  leaving  college  he 
returned  to  California,  studied 
law  and  began  practice  at 
Quincy  with  his  father,  as  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Goodwin 
&  Goodwin.  In  1903  he  was 
practicing  law  at  Susanville, 
Lassen  County,  Calif.,  where  he 
was  interested  in  politics  and  was 
director  of  the  Electric  Light, 
Water  &  Power  Company. 
Shortly  afterwards  he  removed 
to  San  Francisco  and  practiced 
there  until  the  great  earthquake, 
after  which  he  removed  again, 
and  in  1908  was  associated  with 
a  gas  company  in  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  married  on  January  1,  1885,  to  Alice  Jannette  Sackett 
of  New  Haven.     They  have  had  two  children: 

Roy  Ella,  born  November  22,  1885,  at  Quincy. 

John  Daniel,  born  October  23,  1886,  at  Quincy. 

[From  the  Quarter-Century  Record,  Class  of  1888.] 


WILLIAM    NETTLES    GOODWIK 


440 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Theodore  Stone  Hawley 

President  of  the  Arlington  Hotel  Company 
Residence,  Santa  Barbara,  Calif. 


Theodore  S.  Hawley  was  born 
in  San  Francisco,  Calif.,  June 
24,  1866,  son  of  Walter  Nicholas 
Hawley.  He  prepared  at  the 
University  School  and  was  with 
'87  during  Freshman  and  Junior 
years. 

He  has  resided  in  Santa  Bar- 
bara since  1886,  and  gives  his 
attention  to  various  business 
enterprises  in  which  he  is  inter- 
ested. In  1913  he  was  elected 
president  of  the  Arlington  Hotel 
Company. 

He  is  unmarried. 


THEODORE    STONE    HAWLEY 


*William  Stanton  Hume 

William  S.  Hume  was  with  the  Class  but  a  short  time  and 
nothing  is  known  of  his  later  history  except  the  fact  that  he  is  not 
now  living. 

*George  Merriam  Hyde 

Died  1899 

George  M.  Hyde  was  the  youngest  son  of  James  Thomas  and 
Augusta  S.  (Hempstead)  Hyde,  who  were  married  April  27,  1852, 
and  had  three  sons  and  a  daughter.  James  T.  Hyde,  born 
January  28,  1827,  died  March  27,  1886,  in  Chicago,  111.,  was 
graduated  with  honor  at  Yale  in  1847  and  then  studied  theology. 


NON-GRADUATES 


441 


After  holding  various  pastorates  he  became  professor  of  pastoral 
theology,  New  Testament  literature  and  interpretation  in  the 
Chicago  Theological  Seminary.  He  received  the  degree  of  D.D. 
at  Yale  and  Beloit  in  1870.  Mrs.  Hyde  was  born  in  New  London, 
Conn.,  and  died  in  Chicago,  June  22,  1880. 

Hyde  was  born  in  Middlebury,  Vt.,  February  26,  1865.  He  left 
the  Class  in  Sophomore  year,  was  graduated  at  Amherst  in  1887, 
and  from  the  Yale  School  of  Religion  in  1891. 

He  preached  for  a  time  in  or  near  Minneapolis,  and  subsequently 
removed  to  New  York,  where  he  was  engaged  as  a  literary  critic 
and  a  contributor  to  The  Book  Buyer  and  similar  periodicals. 

He  disappeared  from  his  home  on  April  11,  1899,  and  his  body 
was  found  in  the  Hudson  River,  off  Hoboken,  on  June  4. 

He  married  on  January  11,  1899,  Violet,  daughter  of  Oliver  P. 
Buel. 

Irving  Olmstead 

25  Oliver  Street,  Stamford,  Conn. 


Irving  Olmstead  is  a  son  of 
James  H.  and  Adelaide  F. 
(Meeker)  Olmstead  and  was 
born  at  Stamford,  Conn.,  May 
17,  1865.  He  was  prepared  at 
H.  U.  King's  school  in  his  native 
place.  Toward  the  end  of  his 
Freshman  year  he  was  obliged  to 
leave  college  on  account  of  ill 
health,  and  he  afterwards  en- 
tered '88.  Ill  health  again  com- 
pelled him  to  leave  college  three 
weeks  before  graduation  but  in 
1893  the  President  and  Fellows 
of  the  University  conferred  on 
him  the  degree  of  B.A.  and 
ordered  that  his  name  be  enrolled 
in  the  college  class  of  which  he 
was  a  member. 


IRVING  OLMSTEAD 


442  BIOGRAPHIES 


After  leaving  college  he  entered  the  law  office  of  his  father  and 
studied  law  for  a  time.  After  his  father's  death  he  retired  and  has 
since  been  engaged  in  sundry  other  occupations.  His  recreations 
are  bicycling,  swimming  and  all  out-door  exercise. 

He  is  a  Presbyterian  and  in  politics  a  Democrat.  He  has  never 
married. 


Edwin  Parsons 

Retired 
Goose  Creek,  S.  C. 

Edwin  Parsons  was  born  December  12,  1864,  in  New  York  City, 
the  son  of  Charles  and  Sarah  (Shepley)  Parsons.  His  boyhood 
was  spent  in  New  York  City.  He  left  '87  in  Sophomore  year  and 
completed  the  course  and  graduated  with  '88.  He  was  a  member 
of  He  Boule,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

He  was  for  many  years  connected  with  the  Rome,  Watertown 
&  Ogdensburg  Railroad  Company,  as  purchasing  agent  from  1889 
to  1891,  as  treasurer  and  later  as  president  and  a  director.  He 
also  held  high  offices  in  several  other  railroad  companies.  He  has 
now  retired  from  active  business  connections. 

He  is  an  Episcopalian  and  is  a  vestryman  of  Goose  Creek  Church, 
St.  James  Parish,  S.  C.  He  is  a  member  of  the  University,  Yale 
and  Automobile  clubs  of  New  York,  the  Graduates  Club  of  New 
Haven  and  the  Country  Club  of  Charleston,  S.  C. 

He  was  married  April  20,  1892,  to  Laura  Lyon,  of  Oswego, 
N.  Y.  She  died  April  6,  1893.  He  was  again  married  March  8, 
1898,  to  Mary  Battle,  daughter  of  George  A.  Whitehead,  of 
Savannah,  Ga.  They  have  four  children: 

Edwin,  Jr.,  born  April  3,  1899,  in  Savannah. 

Sarah  Whitehead,  born  May  3,  1900,  in  New  York  City. 

Elizabeth  Church,  born  April  12,  1901,  in  New  York  City. 

Mary  Battle,  born  November  22,  1903,  in  New  York  City. 


NON-GRADUA  TES  44$ 


David  Walter  Patten 

Senior  Member  of  Patten  &  Eaton,  185  Church  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Residence,  North  Haven,  Conn. 

D.  Walter  Patten  is  a  son  of  Daniel  Albert  Patten,  M.D.,  and 
Mary  Belcher  (Hyde)  Patten,  who  were  married  October  30,  1855, 
and  had  four  other  children:  Henry  White  Patten,  Yale  '86  S., 
Lillian  Wilbur  Patten  (Mrs.  George  Brainard  Todd),  Mount  Hoi- 
yoke  '91,  Marion  Thompson  Patten,  Mount  Holyoke  '91,  and 
Fannie  Patten  (born  January  28,  1865,  died  July  11,  1866). 
Daniel  Albert  Patten,  M.D.  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
Columbia  '47  (born  May  25,  1823,  in  Salem,  Conn.),  has  resided 
in  North  Haven,  Conn.,  since  1860.  He  practiced  medicine  until 
1860  but  has  since  been  engaged  in  agriculture.  Mary  Belcher 
(Hyde)  Patten  (born  October  30,  1835,  in  Yorktown,  Conn.,  died 
January  4,  1904,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.)  was  a  graduate  of  Music 
Vale  Seminary  in  Salem,  Conn. 

Patten  was  born  in  North  Haven,  Conn.,  February  7,  1862. 
He  prepared  at  Bacon  Academy,  Colchester,  Conn.,  and  at  General 
Russell's  Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute,  New  Haven.  He 
entered  with  '87  but  after  one  year  changed  to  Sheff  and  spent 
one  year  with  '87  S.  He  was  a  substitute  on  the  University  Crew. 

Patten  is  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Patten  &  Eaton,  dealers 
in  real  estate,  loans  and  insurance  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture,  and  treasurer  and  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Connecticut  Agricultural 
College. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  represented  North  Haven  in  the 
General  Assembly  of  1899  and  has  served  as  first  selectman  of 
North  Haven  since  1900  continuously.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  church  and  is  a  member  of  the  church  building 
committee  and  the  prudential  committee  of  the  North  Haven 
Congregational  Church.  He  is  a  member  of  Corinthian  Lodge,  103, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  is  a  charter  member  of  the  North 
Haven  Grange,  35,  P.  of  H. 


444  BIOGRAPHIES 


He  was  married  October  16,  1889,  in  North  Haven,  Conn.,  to 
Miss  Erminnie  Ivison  Emley,  of  Wallingford,  Conn.,  daughter  of 
George  Ivison  Emley.  They  have  no  children. 


Frederic  Hopkins  Pomroy 

Retired  Army  Officer,  care  Adjutant  General  U.  S.  A.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Frederic  H.  Pomroy  was  born  in  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  October  1, 
1863,  and  is  the  son  of  Hopkins  C.  and  Mary  C.  Pomroy.  He 
prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass. 
He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  Junior  year,  graduating  with  '88. 
He  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon. 

After  graduation  he  took  up  the  study  of  law,  was  admitted  to 
the  bar,  and  became  assistant  district  attorney  for  Niagara  County, 
N.  Y.  He  so  continued  until  December  31,  1890.  On  June  1, 
1892,  he  became  secretary  of  the  Sun  Printing  &  Publishing  Com- 
pany of  Lockport.  He  resided  at  Lockport  until  January,  1896, 
and  from  that  time  until  June,  1898,  he  resided  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
On  June  8,  1898,  he  was  appointed  commissary  of  subsistence 
with  the  rank  of  captain  in  the  United  States  volunteers,  and  as 
such  served  in  Tampa  and  Porto  Rico  until  March,  1899.  On 
February  2,  1901,  he  was  appointed  captain  in  the  Commissary 
Department  in  the  United  States  Army  and,  in  1904,  he  was  sta- 
tioned in  Chicago,  having  previously  spent  a  year  in  Cuba  and  two 
in  Manila.  In  1906  he  was  stationed  in  New  York  City.  After 
a  term  of  duty  in  the  Philippines,  he  returned  to  the  United  States 
in  March,  1912,  and  spent  fourteen  months  in  the  Army  Hospital 
in  Washington,  D.  C.  He  then  traveled  for  four  months  in  Europe, 
on  sick  leave.  On  November  1,  1912,  he  was  promoted  to  the 
position  of  major  in  the  quartermaster's  corps.  He  was  retired  on 
June  30,  1913,  for  disability  in  line  of  duty.  In  January,  1914, 
he  was  living  in  New  York  City. 

He  was  married  on  February  3,  1897,  in  Lockport,  to  Alice 
Crowley. 

[From  the  Quarter-Century  Record,  Class  of  1888.] 


NON-GRADUATES 


*George  Clyde  Post 

Died  April  12,  1885 

George  C.  Post  was  born 
September  22,  1865,  at  Owasco 
Lake,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  George 
Sumner  Post.  He  received  his 
preparation  at  the  Auburn 
(N.  Y.)  Academic  High  School 
and  left  the  Class  on  account  of 
ill  health  in  the  spring  of  1884. 
He  died  April  12,  1885. 


GEORGE  CJLYDE  POST 

Joseph  Langdon  Quimby 

Pastor 
Residence,  125  Brunswick  Avenue,  Gardiner,  Maine 

Joseph  L.  Quimby  was  with  the  Class  for  a  short  time  in  Fresh- 
man year.  He  is  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church  in  Gardiner, 
Maine. 

Thomas  Frederick  Sanford 

Professor  of  English,  University  of  California,  Berkeley,  Calif. 
Residence,  1030  Vallejo  Street,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Thomas  F.  Sanford,  son  of  the  late  Thomas  and  Charlotte  Avery 
(Hewitt)  Sanford,  was  born  in  Reading,  Conn.,  December  8,  1867. 
He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New 
Haven.  He  left  the  Class  in  the  spring  of  1886,  and  graduated 


446 


BIOGRAPHIES 


THOMAS   FREDERICK   SANFORD 


with  '88.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Record.  He  received  an 
oration  appointment  in  Senior  year  and  one-year  honors  in  English 
and  two-year  honors  in  ancient  languages  at  graduation. 

After  graduation,,  he  remained  as  a  graduate  student  at  Yale, 
holding  Lamed  and  Clark  Scholarships  for  three  years.  He  was 
also  instructor  in  Latin  for  a  year.  During  the  year  1891-92  he 
was  professor  in  Latin  and  instructor  in  philosophy  at  Drury  Col- 
lege in  Springfield,  Mo.  In  1893  he  was  instructor  in  Latin  at 
the  Northwestern  University,  at  Evanston,  111.,  and  in  the  same 
year,  he  became  instructor  in  English  in  the  University  of  California 
at  Berkeley.  In  1898  he  had  been  advanced  to  an  assistant  pro- 
fessorship and  in  1908  he  had  attained  a  full  professorship.  He 
resides  in  the  "historic  locality"  of  Russian  Hill,  San  Francisco. 
In  forwarding  a  corrected  sketch  of  his  life  to  the  Secretary  of  '88, 
he  writes  of  trouble  with  his  eyes  and  of  a  long  illness  of  his  wife 
and  expresses  regret  that  he  was  unable  to  be  present  at  the 
reunion.  The  letter  ends:  "I  wish  I  could  see  you  and  the  others — 


NON-GRADUATES 


my  old  pals  and  comrades.  I  remember  you  and  all  the  others, 
with  perfect  distinctness  and  vividness  and  with  many  affectionate 
memories." 

He  was  married  on  May  21,  1913,  at  San  Francisco,  to  Florence 
Thurston,  daughter  of  the  late  John  Howard  Hincks,  Yale  '72,  and 
spent  the  following  summer  in  a  camp  on  the  Williamson  River  in 
the  Klamath  Reservation,  Oregon. 

[From  the  Quarter-Century  Record,  Class  of   1888.] 

*Thomas  Hunt  Talmage 

Died  November  29,  1895 

Edward  Henry  Thompson,  M.D. 

Physician,  Hampton,  N.  H. 

E.  Henry  Thompson,  son  of  William  Henry  Thompson,  was 
born  in  Winthrop,  Maine,  December  26,  1862.  He  is  practicing 
medicine  in  Hampton,  N.  H. 

William  Austin  Tomes,  M.D. 

Physician,  500  Classon  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

William  A.  Tomes  was  born  February  14,  1865,  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  and  was  prepared  at  Adelphi  Academy.  He  left  Yale  in 
Junior  year  and  is  now  practicing  medicine  in  Brooklyn. 


*Winthrop  Turney 

Died  July  5,  1905 

Winthrop  Turney,  son  of  Pascal  Warren  Turney,  a  lawyer  in 
New  York  and  resident  of  Astoria,  N.  Y.,  and  Annie  (Gray)  Whit- 
ney Turney,  was  born  in  Astoria,  N.  Y.,  December  12,  1864.  He 
left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  Sophomore  year  on  account  of  an  attack 
of  neurasthenia  and  graduated  with  '88. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Law  School,  received  the 


448  BIOGRAPHIES 


degree  of  Bachelor  of  Law  therefrom  in  the  summer  of  1890,  spent 
the  following  year  in  the  office  of  Stone,  Gannon  &  Pettit  in  Syra- 
cuse, N.  Y.,  was  then  with  Varnum  &  Harrison,  of  New  York  City, 
and  in  January,  1892,  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  alone. 
During  the  next  three  years  he  pursued  a  graduate  course  in  the 
New  York  Law  School. 

He  was  civil  service  commissioner  of  Long  Island  City  for  three 
years,  then  trustee  of  the  Public  Library  of  that  city  for  three  years 
following,  and  was  reflected  to  that  position  for  five  years.  He 
was  also  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Citizen's 
Municipal  League. 

In  1897  he  retired  from  practice  and  during  most  of  the  next 
three  years  lived  on  a  farm  in  Colebrook,  Conn.,  occupied  largely 
in  the  study  of  mining  and  of  the  Spanish  language.  Early  in  1901 
he  went  to  Mexico,  where  he  was  part  owner  of  a  productive  silver 
mine  in  Sonora  near  Tarachi. 

He  was  much  out  of  health  and  had  gone  to  Colebrook,  Conn.,  to 
recuperate.  While  in  a  field  he  died  instantly  from  a  self-inflicted 
bullet  wound,  July  5,  1905. 

He  was  unmarried. 


*  George  Hobart  Vining 

Died  April  6,  1914 

George  H.  Vining  was  born  August  31,  1861,  in  Southwick,  Mass. 
He  had  three  brothers  and  four  sisters:  H.  B.  Vining  of  Kansas 
City,  Mo.,  W.  B.  Vining,  Charles  M.,  Fannie  L.,  Adelaide  G.,  Dora 
B.  and  Edith  B.  Vining.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston 
Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass. 

After  leaving  college  in  the  spring  of  Freshman  year  he  took  up 
the  study  of  journalism  and  went  to  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  in  1893, 
where  he  was  employed  on  the  local  papers.  It  was  at  this  time 
that  he  was  sent  to  Cuba  as  a  representative  of  a  syndicate  of  news- 
papers to  report  the  rebellion  of  that  island  against  Spain.  Fol- 
lowing the  order  excluding  all  newspaper  men  from  Cuba,  he 
returned  to  Kansas  City  and  enlisted  in  Company  A  of  the  Third 
Missouri  Volunteers,  in  which  he  held  the  rank  of  lieutenant.  He 


NON-GRADUATES 


449 


GEORGE    HOBART   VIXIKG 


served  throughout  the  Spanish-American  War.  On  his  return  to 
Kansas  City,  the  Vining  News  Bureau  was  established  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  president  of  that  corporation. 

He  was  a  Mason  and  a  Knight  Templar. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  on  April  6,  1914,  of 
heart  trouble.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Marion  Lane  Vining,  and 
brothers  and  sisters. 

A  year  before  his  death  Vining  wrote: 

"I  was  very  anxious  to  attend  the  Twenty-fifth  Reunion  of  '87. 
Three  years  ago  I  met  with  a  serious  accident,  resulting  in  a  frac- 
tured skull,  almost  complete  temporary  blindness,  broken  jaw,  nose 
and  knocked  out  teeth.  At  the  time  the  Association  here  enter- 
tained Billy  Phelps,  I  was  just  able  to  sit  up  in  my  Morris  chair. 
I  was  delighted  with  a  call  from  Phelps,  whom  I  was  only  able  to 
see  through  a  bundle  of  bandages.  I  have  never  yet  been  able  to 
get  my  dentistry  completed  so  that  I  dare  to  go  back  East  and  smile 
at  old  friends  and  relatives  in  New  Haven,  Hartford,  Springfield 


460  BIOGRAPHIES 


and  on  through  to  the  Vermont  line.  I  was  raised  near  Hartford 
and  Springfield.  You,  of  course,  remember  that  I  am  by  no  means 
a  graduate  of  Yale,  but  am  included  in  the  Association  here  and 
was  a  delegate  at  the  meeting  organizing  the  Western  Association 
of  Yale  Clubs.  I  was  on  the  committee  of  constitution  and  by- 
laws at  that  meeting. 

"My  ancestors  have  figured  in  the  history  of  Plymouth  and 
Windsor  as  it  is  described  in  'The  Couse  Bay  Country/  from  Hart- 
ford to  Vermont.  Others  were  shipowners  in  New  Haven  during 
the  Revolutionary  War  and  the  War  of  1812.  They  had  vessels 
captured  by  both  French  and  English.  My  grandmother,  Martha 
Little  Viriing,  was  a  daughter  of  one  of  them  and  was  raised  and 
married  in  New  Haven.  My  father  and  mother  were  married  by 
Dr.  Leonard  Bacon  at  New  Haven  at  the  old  Tontine  Hotel,  coming 
there  from  my  grandfather's  summer  home  in  Saybrook. 

"Most  of  my  time  has  been  spent  in  journalism,  with  two  inter- 
ruptions during  service  in  the  Army." 


William  Drew  Washburn,  Jr. 

President    of    the    Minnesota    Timber    Land    Company,    the    Farm    Lands 

Investment  Company,  the   Hardwood   Farm  Lands   Company   and 

the  Cuyuna-Northern  Land  &  Iron  Company 

Residence,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

William  D.  Washburn,  Jr.,  was  born  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  April 
3,  1863,  and  is  a  son  of  Hon.  W.  D.  Washburn  and  Elizabeth 
(Muzzy)  Washburn.  He  was  prepared  at  Andover  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '87,  leaving  at  the  end  of  Sophomore  year  and  graduating 
with  '88. 

He  has  since  resided  in  Minneapolis,  engaged  in  numerous  enter- 
prises connected  with  the  lumber,  flour,  railroad,  land  and  iron 
business. 

He  was  four  years  in  the  newspaper  business  upon  the  Chicago 
Tribune,  and  was  associate  editor  on  the  Minneapolis  Tribune. 

He  is  president  of  the  Minnesota  Timber  Land  Company,  the 
Farm  Lands  Investment  Company,  the  Hardwood  Farm  Lands 
Company  and  the  Cuyuna-Northern  Land  &  Iron  Company.  He 


NON-GRADUATES  451 


has  been  active  in  politics  and  has  published  articles  in  a  large 
number  of  newspapers  and  periodicals  and  many  pamphlets  on 
political  subjects.  He  has  served  five  terms  in  the  Minnesota 
Legislature,  having  been  elected  on  the  Republican  ticket.  He  is 
president  of  the  Minnesota  Child  Labor  Committee. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Minneapolis,  Commercial,  Skylight,  Yale, 
Minikahda  and  Minnesota  clubs,  also  the  Elizabethan  and  Century 
clubs. 

He  was  married  September  25,  1890,  in  Portland,  Ore.,  to  Flor- 
ence Savier,  and  they  have  four  children: 

Beatrice,  born  June  26,  1891. 

William  Drew,  3d,  born  July  28,  1897. 

Thomas  Savier,  born  March  28,  1901. 

Franklin,  born  February  28,  1907. 

*Michael  Edward  Woodward 

Died  March  18,  1886 


MICHAEL   EDWARD   WOODWARD 


452 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Roger  Sherman  Wotkyns 

Farrell  Foundry  &  Machine  Company,  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Residence,  161  Hillside  Avenue,  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Roger  S.  Wotkyns  is  a  son  of  Alfred  and  Eliza  (Breakey)  Wot- 
kyns, who  were  married  May  15,  1851,  and  had  four  other  chil- 
dren: Grace  Grosvenor,  Mar- 
shall (died  in  Pasadena,  Calif., 
November  1,  1891),  Webster 
and  Walter  Livingston  Wotkyns. 
Alfred  Wotkyns  was  born  Sep- 
tember 7,  1798,  in  Walpole, 
N.  H.,  and  died  December  23, 
1876,  in  Troy,  N.  Y.  He  was  a 
physician,  practicing  in  Troy 
for  fifty  years.  He  was  a  sur- 
geon in  the  United  States  Army, 
was  president  of  the  Rensselaer 
County  Medical  Society  for 
twenty-five  years,  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Marshall  Infirm- 
ary at  Troy,  president  of  the 
State  Bank  of  Troy  for  twenty- 
five  years  and  mayor  of  Troy  in 
1857-58.  Eliza  Breakey  was 
born  June  13,  1831,  at  Green- 
bush,  N.  Y.,  and  died  September 
11,  1876,  in  Troy,  N.  Y. 

Wotkyns  was  born  October  28,  1864,  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  and  was 
prepared  at  the  Harvard  School,  Chicago,  111.  He  entered  college 
with  '86,  later  joined  our  Class  and  left  in  December  of  his  Junior 
year.  He  was  for  a  time  in  Chicago,  but  has  since  been  in  Water- 
bury.  He  was  for  five  years  teller  in  the  Manufacturers  National 
Bank  of  that  city  and  has  been  with  the  Farrell  Foundry  &  Machine 
Company  for  the  remainder  of  the  time. 

He  is  a  vestryman  in  Trinity  Episcopal  Church  of  Waterbury, 


ROGER  SHERMAN  WOTKYNS 


NON-GRADUATES  453 


and  in  politics  is  a  Republican.  He  has  traveled  in  Canada, 
Bermuda  and  Europe.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Waterbury  Club,  the 
Country  Club  of  Waterbury,  the  Concordia  Musical  Club  and  is  a 
Mason  and  Odd  Fellow. 

He  was  married  October  12,  1887,  in  Waterbury,  to  Mary  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Edward  D.  and  Sarah  M.  Steele.  They  have  two 
children : 

Steele,  born  December  26,  1890.     He  attended  the  Taft  School. 

Edward  Steele,  born  January  31,  1907. 


*Richard  Horner  Wyeth 

Died  October  26,  1903 

*  Warren  Samuel  Yates 

Died  November  26,  1885 


1 


WARREN   SAMUEL  YATES 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  THE  WRITINGS  OF  MEMBERS  OF 
THE  CLASS  OF  1887  IN  YALE  COLLEGEf 

WILLIAM  MA1TLAND  ABELL: 

The  new  departure  in  American  diplomacy.  (In  Gimton's  magazine, 
Dec.,  1902.  v.  23,  p.  476-487.) 

CHANDLER  PARSONS  ANDERSON: 

The  extent  and  limitations  of  the  treaty-making  power  under  the  Con- 
stitution. (In  American  journal  of  international  law,  July,  1907. 
v.  1,  p.  636-670.) 

The  final  outcome  of  the  fisheries  arbitration.  (In  American  journal 
of  international  law.) 

Panama  canal  tolls:  an  address  on  the  issues  between  the  United 
States  and  Great  Britain.  (U.  S.  63d  Cong.,  1st  sess.  S.  Doc.  32.) 
11  p.  1913. 

(Anderson  is  also  one  of  the  editors  of  the  American  journal  of 
international  law,  to  which  he  has  made  frequent  contributions.) 

REV.  ARTHUR  JOHN  ARN: 

Memorial  and  other  occasional  addresses.     (New  Lisbon,  Wis.,  Argus, 

1901.) 
Present   day   demands   on   the   minister   of   the   Gospel:    a    paper   read 

before  the  State  Association  of  Wisconsin  Congregational  Churches, 

1902. 
Revivalism,  past  and  present.     (A  series  of  papers  in  the  Eau  Claire, 

Wis.,  Leader,  1905.) 

(Arn  has  also   frequently  contributed  to  local  papers  on  matters 

of  local  interest.) 

REV.  GERALD  HAMILTON  BEARD: 

Pessimism's  practical  suggestions  to  the  ministry.  (In  Andover 
review,  Mar.,  1892.  v.  17,  p.  272-277.) 

The  history  of  the  Catholic  English  and  the  American  revised  versions 
of  the  Bible:  second  prize  essay.  (In  Roman  Catholic  and  Protestant 
Bibles  compared  (the  Gould  prize  essays)  ;  edited  by  M.  W.  Jacobus. 
N.  Y.,  Bible  Teachers  Training  School  [1905].  p.  57-125,  including 
4  diagrams.) 

Same,  with  appendix.  (In  Same,  2d  edition  revised.  N.  Y.,  Scribner's 
1908.  p.  59-133,  including  4  diagrams,  and  239-287.)  (The  bibliog- 
raphy, occupying  p.  315-361  of  this  edition,  was  prepared  by  W.  J. 


tThis  bibliography  was  undertaken  by  W.  S.  Burns,  '87,  who,  owing  to  ill  health,  was 
obliged  to  turn  over  the  work  for  completion  to  the  Class  Secretaries'  Bureau. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  455 


Chapman    from   material   furnished   by    Beard   and   the   other    prize 
winners.) 

(Beard  has  also  published  occasional  sermons,  articles  in  news- 
papers, etc.) 

BENNETTO  SCHOLARSHIP  COMMITTEE: 

The  John  Bennetto  Scholarship  of  the  Class  of  1887  in  Yale  College. 
29  p.  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  1902. 

LEWIS  SHERRILL  BIGELOW: 

The  1913  flood,  and  how  it  was  met  by  a  railroad.  71  p.  il.  Pitts- 
burgh, The  Pennsylvania  Lines  [1913]. 

EDWARD  LYDSTON  BLISS,  M.D.: 

Reports  on  the  medical  work  at  Shaowu.  (In  Foochow  Messenger. 
Foochow,  China.) 

ALLAN  BLAIR  BONAR,  M.D.: 

Sensory  disturbances  in  locomotor  ataxia;  a  study  of  the  localization 
of  the  anaesthetic  areas  as  an  early  symptom.  (In  Medical  record, 
May  22,  1897.  v.  51,  p.  721-726,  il.) 

Same,  separate.     N.  Y.  Publishing  Printing  Co.,  1897. 

Neurology  and  nervous  diseases.     (In  Butler's  Medical  diagnosis.) 

A  case  of  primary  progressive  muscular  dystrophy  of  the  facio-scapulo- 
humeral  type  of  Landouzy  and  Dejerine.  (In  Journal  of  nervous  and 
mental  disease,  Oct.,  1900.  v.  27,  p.  547-550,  il.) 

A  study  of  the  cases  of  tabes  dorsalis  in  Prof.  M.  Allen  Starr's  clinic, 
Columbia  University,  Jan.,  1888,-Jan.,  1901.  (In  Journal  of  nervous 
and  mental  disease,  May,  1901.  v.  28,  p.  259-272.) 

(Bonar  was  also  the  author  of  numerous  editorials,  abstracts,  etc., 
appearing  in  the  Medical  news,  and  book  reviews  and  abstracts  in 
the  Journal  of  nervous  and  mental  disease,  between  1897  and  1902.) 

DWIGHT  ELIOT  BOWERS: 

The  oldest  general  view  of  New  Haven.  (In  Papers  of  New  Haven 
Colony  Historical  Society.  1900.  v.  6,  p.  220-222,  il.) 

(The  collection  of  facts  for  the  first  report  of  the  Connecticut 
Commission  of  Public  Records  was  his  work,  and  the  report  itself 
almost  all  written  by  him.) 

ARTHUR  WOLFE  BRADY: 

Address  before  the  State  Bar  Association  of  Indiana,  July  7,  1905. 
Some  phases  of  historical  jurisprudence.  14  p.  Indianapolis,  Re- 
porter Publishing  Co.  1905  ?. 


456  BIBLIOGRAPHY 


A  statement  of  the  relations  between  the  Indiana  Union  Traction  Com- 
pany, the  Brotherhood  of  Interurban  Trainmen,  and  the  Amalgamated 
Association  of  Street  and  Electric  Railway  Employees  of  America, 
as  set  forth  in  a  letter  by  the  Traction  Company  to  a  committee  of 
citizens  of  the  city  of  Anderson.  4  p.  Anderson,  Ind.,  1908. 

The  American  Electric  Railway  Association  and  its  work;  address  by 
President,  American  Electric  Railway  Association,  to  13th  annual 
convention,  Oct.  10,  1911.  16  p.  N.  Y.,  the  Association,  1911. 

WILSON  BROOKS: 

(Brooks  has  delivered  many  addresses  of  a  fraternal  nature,  which 
have  been  published.) 

CARLETON  LEWIS  BROWNSON: 

Editor  of: 

Books 

A  smaller  history  of  Greece,  from  the  earliest  times  to  the  Roman 
conquest;  by  William  Smith;  revised,  enlarged  and  in  part  rewritten 
by  Brownson.  423  p.  il.  1  pi.  map.  N.  Y.,  Harper,  189T. 

Xenophon's  Hellenica,  selections.  415  p.  2  maps.  N.  Y.,  American 
Book  Co.  1908.  (Greek  series  for  colleges  and  schools.) 

Articles 

The  opening  of  the  American  School  at  Athens.  (In  Independent, 
Feb.  12,  1891.  v.  43,  p.  224.) 

The  theatre  at  Eretria:  orchestra  and  cavea.  (In  American  journal 
of  archaeology,  Sept.,  1891.  v.  7,  p.  266-280.)  (This  and  the  three 
following  papers  were  reprinted  in  1897  in  the  sixth  volume  of  Papers 
of  the  American  School  of  Classical  Studies  at  Athens.) 

The  relation  of  the  archaic  pediment-reliefs  from  the  Acropolis  to  vase- 
painting.  (In  American  journal  of  archaeology,  Jan.-Mar.,  1893. 
v.  8,  p.  28-41,  1  pi.) 

Excavations  at  the  Hera?um  of  Argos.  (In  American  journal  of 
archaeology,  Apr.- June,  1893.  v.  8,  p.  205-225,  1  pi.) 

Further  excavations  at  the  theatre  of  Sicyon  in  1891;  by  Brownson 
and  Clarence  H.  Young.  (In  American  journal  of  archaeology,  July- 
Sept.,  1893.  v.  8,  p.  397-409,  il.  1  pi.) 

Plato's  studies  in  Greek  literature  [abstract  only].  (In  Transactions 
of  the  American  Philological  Association,  1896.  v.  27,  p.  xxxviii-xl.) 

Reasons  for  Plato's  hostility  to  the  poets._  (In  Transactions  of  the 
American  Philological  Association,  1897.  v.  28,  p.  5-41.) 

A  philosopher's  attitude  toward  art  [Plato  as  an  art  critic,  abstract 
only].  (In  American  journal  of  archaeology,  Jan.-Mar.,  1900.  2d 
series,  v.  4,  p.  174-175.) 

John  Bennetto.     (In  the  John  Bennetto  Scholarship  of  the  Class  of 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  457 


1887.     1902.     p.   11-29.)      (Anon.     By  Brownson,  W.  L.  Phelps  and 

G.  E.  Hill.) 
The  succession  of  Spartan  nauarchs  in  Hellenica  I.     (In  Transactions 

of  the  American  Philological  Association,  1903.     v.  34,  p.  33-40.) 
The  relations  between  colleges  and  secondary  schools:  tendencies  and 

possibilities.     (In  School  Review,  Oct.,  1910.    v.  18,  p.  548-559.) 
The  religion  of  ancient  Greece.     (In  J.  H.  Randall  and  J.  G.  Smith's 

Unity  of  religions.     1910.    p.  117-133.) 

WILLIAM  SAVAGE  BURNS: 

Life  at  Yale.     (In  Denison  Collegian,  Granville,  Ohio,  Apr.,  1889.    v.  12, 
p.  90-93.) 

The   New  York   State   Library  School.      (In   Normal   news,   Ypsilanti, 
Mich.,  Jan.,  1892.     v.  11,  p.  91-92.) 

Defense  of  Lieutenant-Governor   Saxton.      (In   Examiner,   New   York, 
Feb.  27,  1896.) 

"Acid  to  casks";   a   few  remarks   on  indexing.      (In  Library  journal, 
Sept.,  1903.    v.  28,  p.  664-665.) 

New   law   relating  to   United   States   public   documents.      (In   Library 
journal,  May,  1907.     v.  32,  p.  206-207.) 

Bibliography  of  the  writings  of  the  members  of  the  Class  of  1887  in 
Yale  College.     (In  Vicennial  record  of  the  Class.     1909.    p.  59-85.) 

(The  statement  appearing  in  1902  in  the  Yale  alumni  weekly  and 
elsewhere,  that  Burns  was  the  compiler  of  Tables  of  and  anno- 
tated index  to  the  Congressional  series  of  United  States  public 
documents  (Washington,  Gov't  Printing  Office,  1902),  was  wholly 
erroneous.) 

ERNEST  LEROY  CALDWELL: 

First-year  mathematics  for  secondary  schools,  by  G.  W.  Myers,  E.  L. 

Caldwell  and  others.    378  p.    Chicago,  Univ.  of  Chicago  press,  1909. 
Second-year  mathematics  for  secondary  schools;  by  G.  W.  Myers  and 

others,  assisted  by  Caldwell  and  R.  M.  Mathews.    282  p.    il.    Chicago, 

Univ.  of  Chicago  press,  1910. 
Teacher's  manual  for  first-year  mathematics;  by  G.  W.  Myers,  Caldwell 

and  others.     164  p.     Chicago,  Univ.  of  Chicago  press,  1911. 

FREDERICK  STARKWEATHER  CHASE: 

("Occasionally,  communications  or  contributions  to  the  local 
papers.") 

ALFRED  COIT: 

Bar  of  New  London.     (In  New  England  magazine,  Nov.,  1911.     New 
series,  v.  45,  p.  330-332,  por.) 

(Coit  has  also  written  for  the  local  papers,  the  Congregationalist, 
and  the  magazine  of  the  National  Congregational  Brotherhood.) 


458  BIBLIOGRAPHY 


WILLIAM  AARON  CORNISH: 

(Contributions  from  Cornish  have  appeared  in  one  or  more  county 
papers  in  Cortland,  N.  Y.) 

(Cornish  has  written  an  article  in  Mathematics  teacher,  Sept., 
1909.) 

ROBERT  NELSON  CORWIN: 

Entwicklung  und  vergleichung  der  erziehungslehren  von  John  Locke 
und  Jean-Jacques  Rousseau;  inaugural-dissertation  zur  erlangung  der 
doktorwiirde  .  .  .  zu  Heidelberg  vorgelegt.  115  p.  Heidelberg, 
Pfeffer,  1894. 

German  and  English  exercises  for  supplementary  use  with  Whitney's 
Compendious  German  grammar  and  Whitney's  Brief  German  gram- 
mar. 77  p.  N.  Y.,  Holt,  1898. 

Reform  in  entrance  requirements.  (In  Yale  alumni  weekly,  Oct.  27, 
1911.  v.  21,  p.  131.)  Same,  with  omissions.  (In  Science,  Nov.  3, 
1911.  New  series,  v.  34,  p.  605-606.) 

Yale  and  the  schools.  (In  Yale  alumni  weekly,  Apr.  26,  1912.  v.  21, 
p.  779-780.) 

The  correlation  between  western  high  schools  and  eastern  universities. 
(In  10th  annual  meeting  of  the  Associated  Western  Yale  Clubs, 
1913.  p.  26-44.) 

Editor  of: 

Auf  der  universitat;  von  Theodor  Storm.     198  p.     N.  Y.,  Holt,  1910. 
Vetter  Gabriel;  novelle  von  Paul  Heyse.    216  p.     N.  Y.,  Holt,  1911. 
Romeo    und    Julia    auf   dem    dorfe;    erzahlung    von    Gottfried    Keller. 
249  p.     N.  Y.,  Holt,  1912. 

(Corwin  has  also  contributed  other  articles  to  college  papers  and 
the  Yale  alumni  weekly.) 

HENRY  ALEXANDER  DANN: 

(For  some  years  prior  to  1908,  Dann  edited  the  Enterprise,  a 
weekly  local  paper  of  Lancaster,  N.  Y.  He  has  also  contributed  to 
other  newspapers.) 

JOHN  CASPAR  DIEHL: 

(Diehl  has  written  educational  reports  and  articles  for  local 
periodicals.) 

CLARENCE  CLARK  FERRIS: 

A  new  plan  for  direct  nominations;  report  of  committee  appointed  by 
the  Speakers'  Club  to  investigate  the  provisions  of  the  election  law 
of  New  York  relative  to  direct  nominations  and  primary  elections  and 
pending  and  proposed  legislation  thereon,  June  24,  1913;  Clarence 
C.  Ferris,  chairman.  22  p.  N.  Y.,  Speakers'  Club,  1913. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  459 


HARRY  BURR  FERRIS,  M.D.: 

Chronic  internal  hydrocephalus  with  congenital  absence  of  optic 
chiasma.  (In  Yale  medical  journal,  Apr.,  1895.  v.  1,  no.  6,  p.  239- 
243.) 

Cerebro-spinal  fluid.  (In  A.  H.  Buck's  Reference  handbook  of  the 
medical  sciences.  1901.  v.  2,  p.  245-248.) 

The  present  status  of  the  neurone  theory.  (In  Psychological  bulletin, 
Apr.,  1911.  v.  8,  p.  130-136.) 

Manual  of  human  embryology,  by  Keibel  and  Mall  [a  book  review]. 
(In  Johns  Hopkins  Hospital  bulletin,  July,  1911.  v.  22,  p.  226-227.) 

Recent  contributions  to  our  knowledge  of  the  neurone.  (In  Psychologi- 
cal bulletin,  Apr.  15,  1913.  v.  10,  p.  153-163.) 

(Ferris  is  also  the  author  of  several  other  articles  in  the  Yale 
medical  journal,  which  the  compiler  has  been  unable  to  locate,  and 
of  some  book  reviews.) 

ANDREW  FRINK  GATES: 

Triennial  record  of  the  Class  of  1887  in  Yale  College.     59  p.     1  por. 

Hartford,  Conn.,  1891. 
Report  of  Committee  on  Railroad  Taxes  and  Plans   for  Ascertaining 

Fair    Valuation    of    Railroad    Property.      (In    National    Association 

of  Railway  Commissioner's,  Proceedings  of  18th  annual  convention, 

1906.     p.  33-37.) 

EDWARD  WINCHESTER  GOODENOUGH,  M.D.: 

Radical  treatment  [contract  system].     (In  Yale  medical  journal,  Jan., 

1899.    v.  5,  p.  147-154.) 
Scarlet  fever  treatment.     (In  Yale  medical  journal,  Oct.,  1904.     v.  11, 

p.  128-133.) 
Some  suggestions  on  the  medical  treatment  of  gall-stones.     (In  Medical 

age,  ,  1906.     v.  24,  p.  812-820.) 

Some  problems  connected  with  the  medical  inspection  in  schools.     (In 

Proceedings  of  the  Connecticut  state  medical  society,  1911.     v.  119, 

p.  203-213,  followed  by  discussion.) 
Medical  inspection  of  schools,  from  standpoint  of  city  school  inspector. 

(In  Proceedings  of  6th  Sanitary  conference  of  the  health  officials  of 

Connecticut,  Apr.  3,  1912.) 

MADISON  GRANT: 

The  vanishing  moose,  and  their  extermination  in  the  Adirondacks.     (In 

Century,  Jan.,  1894.     v.  47,  p.  345-356,  il.) 
A  Canadian  moose  hunt.     (In  Theodore  Roosevelt  and  G.  B.  Grinnell's 

Hunting  in  many  lands,  the  book  of  the  Boone  and  Crockett  Club. 

1895.    p.  84-106,  1  pi.) 


460  BIBLIOGRAPHY 


Reform  in  the  New  York  Game  laws.     (In  Harper's  weekly,  Oct.  3,  1896. 

v.  40,  p.  978.) 
The  origin  of  the  New  York  Zoological  Society.     (In  G.  B.  Grinnell 

and  Theodore  Roosevelt's  Trail  and  camp-fire,  the  book  of  the  Boone 

and  Crockett  Club.     1897.     p.  313-320,  1  pi.  map.) 
The   Society's   expedition   to   Alaska.      (In   6th    annual   report   of   the 

New  York  Zoological  Society.     1901.     p.  137-140,  il.     1  pi.) 
Moose.     (In  7th  report  of  the  Forest,  Fish  and  Game  Commission  of 

the  State  of  New  York.     1901.     p.  225-238,  il.    3  pi.) 
The    caribou.      (In    7th    annual    report    of   the    New    York    Zoological 

Society,  1902.     p.  175-196,  il.     20  pi.  map.) 
The  origin  and  relationship  of  the  large  mammals  of  North  America. 

(In   8th   annual   report  of  the   New  York   Zoological   Society,   1903. 

p.  182-207.) 

Notes  on  Adirondack  mammals,  with  special  reference  to  the  fur- 
bearers.  (In  8th  and  9th  reports  of  the  Forest,  Fish  and  Game 

Commission  of  the  State  of  New  York.     1902  and  1903.     p.  319-334, 

24  pi.) 
Distribution  of  the  moose.     (In  G.  B.  Grinnell's  American  big  game  in 

its  haunts,  the  book  of  the  Boone  and  Crockett  Club.     1904.     p.  374- 

390,    6    pi.)       (Reprinted,    with    revision,    from    the    article    entitled 

Moose,  supra.) 
The  Rocky  Mountain  goat.     (In  9th  annual  report  of  the  New  York 

Zoological  Society,  1904.     p.  230-261,  il.) 
Condition  of  wild  life  in  Alaska.     (In  Annual  report  of  the  Smithsonian 

Institution,  1909.     p.  521-529,  1  pi.)      [Reprinted  from   12th  annual 

report  of  the  New  York  Zoological  Society,  1907.] 

REV.  FREDERIC  WELLS  HART: 

(Some  of  Hart's  sermons  have  been  printed.) 

HORACE  SEDGWICK,  HART  M.D.: 

Elastin  and  the  elastose  bodies;  by  R.  H.  Chittenden  and  H.  S.  Hart. 
(In  Transactions  of  the  Connecticut  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 
1890.  v.  8,  p.  19-38.) 

FORBES  HAWKES,  M.D.: 

A  report  of  66  cases  of  appendicitis  occurring  in  the  service  of  Dr. 

McCosh,  Dec.  1,  1894,-Dec.  1,  1896.     (In  Medical  and  surgical  report 

of   the   Presbyterian   Hospital,    New   York,    1897.     v.   2,   p.    138-163, 

1  tab.) 
The  surgical  treatment  of  appendicitis;  by  A.  J.  McCosh  and  Forbes 

Hawkes.     (In  American  journal  of  the  medical  sciences,  May,  1897. 

New  series,  v.  113,  p.  513-538.) 
A  report  of  41  hysterectomies  performed  Nov.  1,  1895,-Nov.  1,  1897,  on 


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patients  admitted  to  Dr.  McCosh's  service  at  the  Presbyterian  Hos- 
pital. (In  Medical  and  surgical  report  at  the  Presbyterian  Hospital, 
New  York,  1898.  v.  3,  p.  220-251,  1  tab.) 

A  case  of  suprapubic  and  submucous  prostatectomy.  (In  Post-Gradu- 
ate, Feb.,  1900.  v.  15,  p.  168-172,  2  pi.) 

The  question  of  operation  in  appendicitis.  (In  New  York  medical 
journal,  Jan.  12,  1901.  v.  73,  p.  49-52.) 

Intravenous  infusion:  indications  and  technique  with  demonstrations 
on  the  human.  (In  Post-Graduate,  May,  1903.  v.  18,  p.  405-413, 
followed  by  discussion.) 

Abdominal  rigidity,  its  value  as  a  symptom  to  the  general  practitioner. 
(In  Medical  brief,  Mar.,  1904.  v.  32,  p.  199-201.) 

Peritonitis,  its  importance  to  the  general  practitioner  and  to  the  sur- 
geon. (In  Post-Graduate,  Apr.,  1904.  v.  19,  p.  386-394,  followed  by 
discussion,  1  pi.) 

The  treatment  of  advanced  cases  of  general  septic  peritonitis  from 
appendicitis;  with  remarks  on  the  early  diagnosis  of  this  condition. 
(In  Medical  and  surgical  report  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital.  New 
York,  1904.  v.  6,  p.  103-146.) 

A  case  of  supracondylar  fracture  of  the  humerus,  with  musculo-spiral 
paralysis.  (In  Post-Graduate,  Mar.,  1905.  v.  20,  p.  230-231,  followed 
by  discussion.) 

A  case  of  intrahepatic  calculi;  removal;  drainage.  (In  Medical  and 
surgical  report  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  New  York,  1906.  v.  7, 
p.  230-234.) 

The  diagnosis  of  imminent  perforation  in  typhoid  fever  [abstract  only]. 
(In  Medical  record,  Mar.  9,  1907.  v.  71,  p.  414.) 

Gallstone  disease  and  its  surgical  aspect.  (In  New  York  medical 
journal,  Mar.  7,  1908.  v.  87,  p.  444-446.) 

Extra  peritoneal  rupture  of  the  bladder,  with  intraperitoneal  transuda- 
tion  of  urine.  (In  Medical  and  surgical  report  of  the  Presbyterian 
Hospital,  New  York,  1908.  v.  8,  p.  254-257.) 

The  prevention  of  intestinal  obstruction  following  operation  for  appen- 
dicitis. (In  Annals  of  surgery,  Feb.,  1909.  v.  49,  p.  192-207,  il.) 

Acute  ulcer  peritonitis  in  typhoid  fever;  a  plea  for  its  earlier  recogni- 
tion. (In  Annals  of  surgery,  May,  1911.  v.  53,  p.  651-675,  2  pi.) 

(A  number  of  cases  presented  by  Dr.  Hawkes  at  meetings  of 
the  New  York  Surgical  Society  in  1903  and  later  years  are  reported 
in  condensed  form  in  Annals  of  surgery,  v.  37,  38,  40,  41,  47,  49,  53, 
and  55.) 

FREDERICK  TREVOR  HILL: 

Books 

The  case  and  exceptions;  stories  of  counsel  and  clients.  241  p.  N.  Y., 
Stokes,  1900.  (Some  of  the  stories  in  this  volume  were  translated 
into  German  and  published  in  German  periodicals.  The  translation 


462  BIBLIOGRAPHY 


of  "Outside  the  record,*'  by  F.  Mai,  appeared  in  the  Muenchner 
Neueste  nachrichten.) 

The  care  of  estates  [a  law  book  for  executors,  etc.].  176  p.  N.  Y., 
Baker,  Voorhis  &  Co.,  1901. 

The  minority;  a  novel.    406  p.    N.  Y.,  Stokes,  1902. 

The  web  [a  novel].  344  p.  pi.  N.  Y.,  Doubleday,  1903.  (First 
appeared  serially  in  Collier's,  in  1903-1904.) 

The  accomplice  [a  novel].    325  p.     N.  Y.,  Harper,  1905. 

Lincoln,  the  lawyer.  322  p.  il.  por.  pi.  facsim.  N.  Y.,  Century  Co., 
1906.  (First  appeared  serially  in  the  Century,  v.  71-72,  from  Decem- 
ber, 1905,  to  May,  1906.) 

Decisive  battles  of  the  law;  narrative  studies  of  eight  legal  contests 
affecting  the  history  of  the  United  States  between  1800  and  1886. 
267  p.  1  por.  N.  Y.,  Harper,  1907.  (First  appeared  serially  in 
Harper's  monthly,  v.  113-115,  from  June,  1906,  to  September,  1907.) 

The  story  of  a  street;  a  narrative  history  of  Wall  Street  from  1644 
to  1908.  170  p.  1  por.  22  pi.  map.  8  facsim.  N.  Y.,  Harper, 
1908.  (First  appeared  serially  in  Harper's  monthly,  v.  116-117,  from 
April  to  September,  1908.) 

Washington:  the  man  of  action.     N.  Y.,  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  1914. 

Editor  of: 

Miniatures  from  Balzac's  masterpieces;  translated  and  compiled  by 
S.  P.  Griffin  and  F.  T.  Hill.  104  p.  N.  Y.,  Appleton,  1893.  (A 
collection  of  450  brief  extracts,  illustrating  the  "wit,  philosophy,  and 
keen  analysis  of  human  character  for  which  [Balzac]  is  famous"; 
preceded  by  a  biographical  sketch.) 

Articles 

In  the  presence  of  the  enemy  [a  story].     (In  Frank  Leslie's  monthly, 

May,  1902.     v.  54,  no.  1.) 

The  shield  of  privilege  [a  story].     (In  Ainslee's  magazine,  Nov.,  1902.) 
The   judgment   of  his   peers    [a  story].      (In    Everybody's   magazine, 

December,  1902.    v.  7,  p.  579-581.) 
A  lawyer's  duty  with  a  bad  case.     (In  Everybody's  magazine,  May,  1903. 

v.  8,  p.  457-462.) 
Our  selfish  citizenship.     (In  Everybody's  magazine,  Jan.,  1904.     v.  10, 

p.  51-56.) 
The  menace  of  the  law's  delays.     (In  Everybody's  magazine,  Apr.,  1904. 

v.  10,  p.  549-554.) 
Two  fishers  of  men  [in  Editor's  drawer].     (In  Harper's  monthly,  Oct., 

1904.    v.  109,  p.  811-814,  il.) 
The  personal  equation    [in  Editor's   drawer].      (In   Harper's  monthly, 

Nov.,  1904.    v.  109,  p.  973-977,  il.) 
Submitted  on  the  facts   [a  story].     (In  Success,  Aug.,  1905.     v.  8,  no. 

135.) 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  463 


The  weapons  of  a  gentleman   [a  story].      (In  Smart  set,  Sept.,   1905. 

v.  17,  no.  1.) 
The  unearned  increment  [a  story].     (In  Collier's,  Sept.  23,  1905.    v.  35, 

no.  26.) 
The    Supreme   Court    and   coming   events.      (In    Appleton's    magazine, 

July,  1906.    v.  8,  p.  9-15,  il.) 

The  dollar-mark  and  the  hall-mark  of  fame.     (In  Everybody's  maga- 
zine, Sept.,  1906.    v.  15,  no.  3,  p.  386-389.) 
Lincoln,  master  of  men  [a  book  review].     (In  North  American  review, 

Sept.  21,  1906.     v.  183,  p,  541-544.) 
Walter  Reed  and  yellow  fever  [a  book  review].     (In  North  American 

review,  Oct.  19,  1906.    v.  183,  p.  798-800.) 
The  woman  in  the'  case    [a  story].      (In   Century,  Jan.,   1907.     v.   73, 

p.  408-412.) 
A  battle  of  the  giants,  the  first  meeting  between  Douglas  and  Lincoln, 

at  Ottawa,  111.     (In  Collier's,  Feb.  9,  1907.    v.  38,  no.  20,  p.  14-15,  il.) 
Exhibit  no.  2  [a  story].     (In  Everybody's  magazine,  Apr.,  1907.    v.  16, 

p.  564-568.) 
Legal  defeaters  of  the  law.     (In  Putnam's  monthly,  June,  1907.     v.  2, 

p.  293-296.) 

War  [a  story].     (In  Harper's  monthly,  Jan.,  1908.     v.  116,  p.  247-253.) 
The   Lincoln-Douglas   debates,   fifty   years    after.      (In   Century,   Nov. 

1908.     v.  77,  p.  3-19,  il.) 
Lincoln's  legacy  of  inspiration  to  Americans.      (In  New  York  Times, 

Feb.  1-7,  1909.) 
Lincoln's  legacy  of  inspiration.     60  p.     1   pi.     N.  Y.,  Stokes    [1909]. 

(First  appeared  serially  in  the  New  York  Times,  Feb.  1-7,  1909.) 
On  the  trail  of  Washington;  a  narrative  history  of  Washington's  boy- 
hood and  manhood.     276  p.     il.     N.  Y.,  Appleton,  1910.      (National 

holiday  series.) 
Patriotism  and  the  profession.     (In  Yale  law  journal,  Mar.,  1910.    v.  19, 

p.  319-325.) 
On  the  trail  of  Grant  and  Lee;  a  narrative  history  of  the  boyhood  and 

manhood   of  two   great   Americans,     xiv,   305   p.     N.   Y.,   Appleton, 

1911.     (National  holiday  series.) 
The  boyhood  of  Lincoln;  speech  at  banquet  of  State  bar  association  of 

Connecticut.       (In    State    bar    association    of    Connecticut,    Annual 

report,  1912.    p.  87-92.) 
The  police  courts  of  New  York;   a  record  of  progress   in  the  minor 

criminal  courts.     (In  Century,  May,  1912.    v.  84,  p.  87-95,  il.) 
Tales   out  of  court;    a  serial  of  the   law.      (In   Outlook,  v.    102-104.) 

(Reprinted    in   book    form,    with    some    alteration,    under    title    The 

thirteenth  juror.) 
The  thirteenth  juror;  a  tale  out  of  court.     211  p.     il.     1  pi.     N.  Y., 

Century  Co.,  1913. 


464  BIBLIOGRAPHY 


Adventures  in  American  diplomacy.  (In  Atlantic  monthly,  Apr.-May, 
1914.  v.  113,  p.  533-545,  649-659.) 

(Besides  the  above,  Hill  has  written  book  reviews  for  the  Book- 
man, and  other  periodical  articles,  the  titles  of  which  are  not  at 
hand.) 

GEORGE  EDWIN  HILL: 

The  secret  ballot.     (In  Yale  law  journal,  Oct.,  1891.    v.  1,  p.  26-29.) 

Same,  separate.    6  p.  [New  Haven]  Yale  Law  School,  1891. 

The  Class  of  '87  since  graduation.     (In  Triennial  record  of  the  Class 

of  1887  in  Yale  College.     1891.    p.  25-59.) 
Sexennial  record  of  the  Class  of  1887  in  Yale  College.     69  p.     2  pi. 

Bridgeport,  Conn.,  1893. 
Annual  reports  as  County  Health  Officer  for  Fairfield  County,  for  years 

ending  June  1,  1895,-Aug.  31,  1908.     (In  18th-30th  annual  reports  of 

the  State  Board  of  Health  of  Connecticut,  for  1895-1909.) 
Decennial  record  of  the  Class  of  1887  in  Yale  College.    89  p.    il.     1  pi. 

Bridgeport,  Conn.,  1897. 
Compulsory  laws  affecting  public  health.     (In  23d  annual  report  of  the 

State  Board  of  Health  of  Connecticut,  for  1900.     p.  290-295.) 
Quindecennial   record   of  the   Class   of   1887   in   Yale   College.     131    p. 

il.     2  pi.     Bridgeport,  Conn.,  1903. 

See  also,  for  Hill  as  joint  author,  next  to  last  entry  under  Brown- 
son,  supra. 
Vicennial   record   of  the   Class   of   1887   in  Yale   College.      182   p.     il. 

1  pi.     Bridgeport,  Conn.,  1909. 
President's  address.     (In  State  Bar  association  of  Connecticut.    Annual 

report,  1911.     p.   17-27.)     Same,  1912.      (In  same,  p.   17-28.) 

WILLIAM   KENT: 

Pamphlets 

Practical  politics;  a  lay  sermon.  Chicago,  Unity  Publishing  Co.,  1896. 
Also  published  by  Publication  Committee  of  All  Soul's  Church,  1896. 

Vice  in  Chicago,  an  address  before  the  Congregational  Club  of  Chicago, 
Jan.  21,  1901.  15  p.  Chicago,  Unity  Publishing  Co.,  1901.  (Re- 
printed from  Unity,  Jan.  31,  1901.) 

Municipal  citizenship;  an  address  to  the  students  of  Lake  Forest 
College  on  Washington's  Birthday,  1905.  12  p.  [Chicago,  1905.] 

Res  indigestae;  a  cyclopaedia  of  universal  ignorance.  20  p.  Chicago, 
1906. 

Here's  hoping,  the  optimism  of  experience;  a  lay  sermon.  15  p. 
Chicago,  1906. 

A  rticles 

The  American  city  electorate.  (In  Charities,  Nov.  3,  1906.  v.  17, 
p.  209-211.) 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  465 


Shake;   a  personal   reminiscence  of  San   Francisco,   April,   1906.      (In 

Collier's,  Dec.  29,  1906.     v.  38,  no.  14,  p.  18-19,  il.) 
A  toothless  saw:  "A  man  is  known  by  the  company  he  keeps."      (In 

Collier's,  Apr.  6,  1907.     v.  39,  no.  2,  p.  15,  il.) 
A  toothless  saw,  2:  audible  cash.      (In  Collier's,  July  6,  1907.     v.  39, 

no.  15,  p.  25-26,  il.) 
A  toothless  saw,  3:  "It  takes  a  thief  to  catch  a  thief."     (In  Collier's, 

Aug.  31,  1907.    v.  39,  no.  23,  p.  24-26.) 
A  toothless  saw:  "Ignorantia  legis  principia  sapientiae."     (In  Collier's, 

Mar.  6,  1909.    v.  42,  no.  24,  p.  38,  40.) 
Jenkin    Lloyd    Jones.      (In    American    magazine,    July,    1910.      v.    70, 

p.  320-321,  323,  il.) 
Cost  and  profits  of  sheep  raising  in  the  arid  region.     (In  Congressional 

record,  Aug.  2,  1911.    v.  47,  p.  3624-3625  of  the  daily  edition.) 
Service  pensions;  speech  in  the  House  of  Representatives,  Dec.  11,  1911. 

(In  Congressional  record,  Dec.   11,  1911.     v.  48,  p.   187-188,  of  the 

daily  edition.) 
Abrogation   of   Russian   treaty;   speech   in   House   of   Representatives, 

Dec.  20,  1911.     (In  Congressional  record,  Dec.  21,  1911.    v.  48,  p.  645- 

646  of  the  daily  edition.) 
Concerning  the  production  and  distribution  of  wealth  under  a  protective 

tariff;  speech  in  the  House  of  Representatives,  Apr.  28,  1911.     8  p. 

Washington,  1911.     [Reprinted  from  the  Congressional  record,  v.  47, 

p.  698-700  of  the  daily  edition.] 
Johnson  of  California.      (In   Outlook,   Feb.   10,   1912.     v.   100,  p.  313- 

319.) 
Postal  employees'  right  of  petition;  parcels  post;  federal  aid  for  good 

roads;  speech  in  House  of  Representatives,  Apr.  23,  1912.     (In  Con- 
gressional  record,  Apr.  23,   1912.     v.  48,  p.   5511-5512  of  the   daily 

edition. 
Concerning  certain  economic  and  social  phases  of  immigration;  speech 

in  the  House  of  Representatives,  Dec.  14,  1912.     8  p.     Washington, 

Government  printing  office,  1912.     [Reprinted  from  the  Congressional 

record.] 
Introduction.      (In    Bessie    Beatty's    A    political    primer    for   the    new 

voter.     1912.) 
Democracy  and  efficiency;  an  address  at  Harvard  university,  Mar.  29, 

1912.     (U.  S.  63d  Cong.,  1st  sess.     Doc.  202.)     13  p.     1913. 
The  tariff;  speech  in  the  House  of  Representatives,  Apr.  26,  1913.    15  p. 

Washington,  1913.     [Reprinted  from  the  Congressional  record.] 
Views  of  an  independent;  one  year  of  Wilson.     (In  Harper's  Weekly, 

v.  58,  p.  13,  Mar.  7,  1914.) 

(Kent  has  also  made  other  political  and  literary  contributions  to 

Collier's  and  other  periodicals.) 


466  BIBLIOGRAPHY 


JOHN  SCOTT  KING: 

("Many  sermons  and  addresses  published  in  daily  papers  of  New- 
burgh,  N.  Y.  One  on  "Demon  milk"  was  published,  I  think,  by 
papers  as  far  west  as  Oregon.") 

SAMUEL  KNIGHT: 

Federal  control  of  hydraulic  mining.     (In  Yale  law  journal,  June,  1898. 
v.  7,  p.  385-392.) 

YAN  PHOU  LEE: 

When  I  was  a  boy  in  China.     Ill  p.    il.    Boston,  Lothrop  [1887]. 
Same,  in  German.    Aus  meinen  Knabenjahren  in  China;  uebersetzt  von 

Albert  Petri.    80  p.    il.    Allentown,  Pa.,  Trexler  &  Hartzell,  1889. 
Why  I  am  not  a  heathen.      (In  North  American   review,  Sept.,  1887. 

v.  145,  p.  306-312.) 

A  Chinese  market.     (In  St.  Nicholas,  May,  1888.    v.  15,  p.  546-547,  il.) 
The    Chinese   must    stay.      (In   North    American    review,    April,    1889. 

v.  148,  p.  476-483.) 
The  boys  and  girls  of  China.     (In  St.  Nicholas,  Feb.,  1890.    v.  17,  p.  362- 

363,  il.) 

(Lee  has  also  written  many  articles  for  newspapers  in  New  York, 
San  Francisco,  St.  Louis,  Nashville,  and  the  State  of  Delaware. 
About  1889  he  edited  and  published  a  small  periodical  called  the 
Chinese  evangelist,  and  is  now  editor  of  a  local  paper  at  Wood 
Ridge,  N.  J.) 

JOHN  LEVERETT,  M.D.: 

Some    homemade    and    homely    appliances.      (In    New    York    medical 

journal,  Mar.  10,  1900.    v.  71,  p.  331-332.) 
A  difficulty  of  the  metric  system.      (In  Philadelphia  medical  journal, 

Mar.  31,  1900.     v.  5,  p.  702.) 
A  few  cases  of  diphtheria,  and  what  they  taught  me.     (In  Philadelphia 

medical  journal,  Sept.  15,  1900.     v.  6,  p.  510-511.) 

WILLIAM  McCORMICK: 

The  boy  and  his  clubs;  with  a  foreword  by  T.  Chew.     96  p.     N.  Y., 

Revell,  1912. 
The  club  and  the  church.     (In  Work  with  boys,  Sept.,  1913.     v.   13, 

p.  304-308.) 

Editor  of: 

Work  with  boys,  published  by  the  Federated  boys'  club.     Reading,  Pa. 

(McCormick  has   been   editor   of   three    Pennsylvania   dailies:   the 

Bethlehem  Times,  from  March,  1890,  to  July,  1892;  the  Allentown 

Leader,   from  its   foundation   in   1893  until   1896;   and   the   Reading 

Herald,  from  1896  to  the  present  time. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  467 


A  series  of  his  articles  in  one  of  these  papers,  bearing  the  title 
"While  your  coffee  is  cooling,"  was  reprinted  in  pamphlet  form  at 
some  time  prior  to  1898.  He  has  also  written  magazine  articles,  as 
to  which  definite  information  is  wanting.) 

HENRY  LAWTON  MAY: 

(For  a  general  account  of  May's  editorial  and  other  literary  work, 
see  the  biographical  sketches  in  the  Decennial  and  Quindecennial 
records.  Nothing  more  specific  is  known  to  the  compiler.) 

FRANKLIN  ADAMS  MEACHAM,  M.D.: 

A  synopsis  of  clinical  surgery  during  the  service  of  Samuel  H.  Pink- 

erton,  surgeon  to  the  Holy  Cross  Hospital,  for  the  year  1892.     145  p. 

1  pi.    Salt  Lake  City,  1893. 
The  status  of  medical  legislation  in  Utah.     (In  Medical  record,  May  12, 

1894.     v.  45,  p.  607-608.) 
A  review  of  the  causation  of  pelvic  inflammation.     (In  Denver  medical 

times,  June,  1895.) 
Tendency  of  the  modern  school  of  medicine.     (In  Denver  medical  times, 

Aug.,  1895.) 
Evolution  of  our  knowledge   of  typhoid   fever.      (In   Denver  medical 

times,  Dec.,  1896.) 
Some  important  considerations  in  the  biology  of  bacteria,  infection  and 

natural  immunity.     (In  Denver  medical  times.) 
Climatic  physics  of  the  Utah  Basin.     (In  Denver  medical  times,  Feb., 

1897.) 
Report  of  the  operations  of  the  Board  of  Health  of  Manila,  P.  I.,  from 

July   1,   1900,  to   May   31,   1901.      (In   Annual   reports   of   the   War 

Department,    1901;    report    of   the   Lieutenant-General   Commanding 

the  Army.    pt.  2,  p.  439-449.) 

[Same,  for  year  ending  June  30,  1901.]     (In  Same,  pt.  5,  p.  171-183.) 
[Control  of  venereal  diseases  in  Manila.]     (In  Same,  pt.  5,  p.  188-189.) 

CLARENCE  TOMLINSON  MORSE: 

The  University  Club  of  Chicago.  (In  American  university  magazine, 
Apr.-May,  1897.  v.  6,  p.  122-130,  il.) 

HOMER  TOMLINSON  PARTREE: 

Contract  practice,  its  ethical  bearings  and  relations  to  the  lodge,  and 
industrial  insurance.  (In  Bulletin  of  the  American  academy  of 
medicine,  Dec.,  1909.  v.  10,  p.  594-598.) 

LOUIS  HARMAN  PEET: 

Who's  the  author?  a  guide  to  the  authorship  of  novels,  stories,  speeches, 
songs  and  general  writings  of  American  literature.  317  p.  N.  Y., 
Crowell  [1901]. 


468  BIBLIOGRAPHY 


Same,  with  the  title  Handy  book  of  American  authors.  317  p.  N.  Y., 
Crowell  [1907].  (Crowell's  handy  information  series.) 

Trees  and  shrubs  of  Prospect  Park.  237  p.  maps.  N.  Y.,  American 
Printing  House  [1902].  (First  appeared  serially  in  the  Evening 
Post.) 

Trees  and  shrubs  in  Central  Park.  363  p.  30  pi.  maps.  N.  Y.,  Man- 
hattan Press  [1903]. 

Recognizing  a  native  tree  by  its  bark.  (In  Country  calendar,  Nov., 
1905.  v.  1,  p.  654,  656.) 

ARTHUR  PERKINS: 

The  element  of  malice  in  the  law  of  libel  in  Connecticut.  (In  Yale 
law  journal,  Feb.,  1895.  v.  4,  p.  112-116.) 

A  compilation  of  the  statutes  of  Connecticut  relating  to  the  organiza- 
tion and  management  of  corporations  organized  under  general  law, 
revised  to  1906.  43  p.  [Hartford]  Case,  Lockwood  &  Brainard  Co., 
1906. 

GEORGE  DANIEL  PETTEE: 

Plane  geometry.     253  p.     N.  Y.,  Silver,  Burdett  &  Co.,  1895. 

The  problems  which  confront  the  academy  at  the  opening  of  the  20th 

century.     (In  Education,  Oct.,  1900.    v.  21,  p.  65-70.) 
In  memoriam,  Dr.  C.  F.  P.  Bancroft.     (In  School  review,  Apr.,  1902. 

v.  10,  p.  257-269,  including  portrait.) 

(Other   articles   by   Pettee,   treating   of   educational   methods    and 

athletics,   were    published    somewhere    in    the    period    from    1887    to 

1900.) 

WILLIAM  LYON  PHELPS: 

Books,  etc. 
The  beginnings  of  the   English   romantic  movement;   a  study  in   18th 

century  literature.  192  pp.  Boston,  Ginn,  1893. 
A  literary  map  of  England.  [Boston,  Ginn]  1899. 
The  permanent  contribution  of  the  19th  century  to  English  literature. 

25   p.      [Cambridge,    1901.]       (Reprinted    from    the    Christian-Evan- 
gelist.) 
Same,   revised,   with   title,  The   pure   gold   of   19th   century   literature. 

36  p.     N.  Y.,  Crowell  [1907]. 
List  of  general  reading  in   English  literature.     4  p.      [New   Haven.] 

The  Pease-Lewis  Co.     [The  first  edition  of  this  was  printed  in  1895, 

the  fourth  in  1902,  the  ninth  in  1911.] 
Why  not  the  Bible?     Leaflet.     New  England  Association  of  Teachers, 

1906. 

A  dash  at  the  pole.     [72  p.]     il.     Boston,  Ball  Publishing  Co.,  1909. 
Essays  on  modern  novelists.     293  p.     N.  Y.,  Macmillan,  1910. 


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(A  two- volume  quarto  edition  has  been  printed  in  raised  type  for  the 
blind,  1914.) 

Essays  on  Russian  novelists.    322  p.    1  por.     N.  Y.,  Macmillan,  1911. 

Teaching  in  school  and  college.     186  p.     N.  Y.,  Macmillan,  1912. 

Essays  on  books.    319  p.    N.  Y.,  Macmillan,  1914. 
Editor  of: 

Selections  from  the  poetry  and  prose  of  Thomas  Gray.  1  -(-  179  p. 
1  por.  Boston,  Ginn,  1894.  (Athenaeum  Press  series.) 

Irving's  Tales  of  a  traveler.  558  p.  N.  Y.,  Putnam,  1894.  (Stu- 
dent's edition.) 

Irving's  Sketch-book,  xxvi,  544  p.  N.  Y.,  Putnam,  1895.  (Student's 
edition.) 

The  best  plays  of  George  Chapman.  47  p.  1  por.  London,  Unwin, 
1895.  (Mermaid  series,  the  best  plays  of  the  old  dramatists.)  [v.  2.] 

Shakspere's  As  you  like  it,  with  introduction  by  Barrett  Wendell  and 
notes  by  Phelps.  xxxii  -j-  102  p.  1  por.  N.  Y.,  Longmans,  1896. 
(Longmans'  English  classics.) 

Thackeray's  English  humorists  of  the  18th  century,  xli  -(-  360  p. 
N.  Y.,  Holt,  1900. 

The  novels  of  Samuel  Richardson,  with  a  life  of  the  author  and  intro- 
ductions by  Prof.  W.  L.  Phelps.  20  v.  por.  pi.  facsim.  N.  Y., 
Croscup  &  Sterling  Co.  [1901-1903.]  (Salisbury  Court  Edition.) 

The  history  of  Henry  Esmond,  by  William  Makepeace  Thackeray. 
544  p.  1  por.  Chicago,  Scott,  Foresman  &  Co.,  1902.  (Lake  English 
classics.) 

The  novels  and  letters  of  Jane  Austen;  edited  by  R.  B.  Johnson; 
introduction  by  Phelps.  12  v.  il.  Philadelphia,  F.  S.  Holby,  1906. 
(Chawton  edition.) 

Essays  of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson,  xxii  -|-  184  p.  N.  Y.,  Scribner, 
1906. 

History  of  the  Yale  University  Dramatic  Association   [and  Introduc- 
tion].     (In    Henrik   Ibsen's   The   pretenders;    acting   version   of   the 
Yale  University  Dramatic  Association.     [1907.]     p.  v-xx,  1  por.) 
Articles 

The  difference  between  prohibition  and  high  license.  (In  New  Eng- 
lander,  Feb.,  1888.  v.  48,  p.  126-129.) 

Schopenhauer  and  Omar  Khayyam.  (In  New  Englander,  Nov.,  1888. 
v.  49,  p.  328-336.) 

Lessing  and  the  German  Drama.  (In  New  Englander,  Sept.,  1889. 
v.  51,  p.  198-209.) 

Mr.  Browning's  last  words.  (In  New  Englander,  Mar.  1890,  v.  52, 
p.  240-244.) 

David   Mallet's   literary    forgery.      (In    Harvard   monthly, ,    1892. 

v.  2,  p.  191-197.) 

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il.) 
Introduction.     (In  Dion  L.  Boucicault's  London  assurance,  a  comedy; 

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Choice  of  English  courses,  resulting  advantages.     (In  Yale  news,  Mar. 

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The  poet  Herrick.     (In  Methodist  review,  July,  1910.    v.  92,  p.  543-549.) 
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The    American    Academy.      (In    Independent,    Nov.    17,    1910.      v.    69, 

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A  journey  to  the  Southern  alumni.     (In  Yale  alumni  weekly,  Jan.  20, 

1911.  v.  20,  p.  433-434.) 

A   Yale  professor  in  Texas.      (In  Yale  alumni  weekly,  Jan.  27,   1911. 

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The  young  person's  reading.     (In  Service,  Aug.,  1911.) 
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Oct.,  1911.    v.  1,  p.  81-98.) 


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The   Christiania  centenary.      (In  Yale   alumni   weekly,   Nov.    10,    1911. 

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William  Lyon  Phelps.     N.  Y.,  Cincinnati  [etc.,  1912]     p.  1-26.) 
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reviews  to  the  Independent,  the  New  York  Tribune,  the  Book  buyer, 

the  Yale  alumni  weekly,  and  has  written  criticisms  of  undergraduate 

publications  in  the  Yale  news. 

JOHN  NORTON  POMEROY    (JR.): 

Books 

A  treatise  on  equitable  remedies,  supplementary  to  Pomeroy's  Equity 
jurisprudence.  2  v.  1875  p.  San  Francisco,  Bancroft- Whitney  Co., 
1905. 

Editor  of: 

A  treatise  on  equity  jurisprudence,  by  John  Norton  Pomeroy,  LL.D. 


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Same.     Students'  edition;  by  John  Norton  Pomeroy,  Jr.     1048  p.     San 

Francisco,  Bancroft-Whitney  Co.,  1907. 
Remedies    and   remedial   rights   by   the   civil   action    according   to   the 

reformed    American    procedure;    by    John    Norton    Pomeroy,    LL.D. 

3d  edition;  by  John  Norton  Pomeroy,  Jr.     Ixxxv  -\-  909  p.     Boston, 

Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  1894. 
A  treatise  on  the  specific  performance  of  contracts;  by  John  Norton 

Pomeroy,  LL.D.     2d  edition;  by  John  Norton  Pomeroy,  Jr.     599  p. 

N.  Y.,  Banks  &  Brothers,  189T. 
The  codes  and  statutes  of  California;  with  notes  by  Carter  P.  Pomeroy. 

3   vols.      San    Francisco,    Bancroft- Whitney   Co.,    1901.      (Edited    in 

chief  part  by  J.  N.  P.,  Jr.) 

Articles 

Citations  of  law  books  [a  communication  relative  to  the  50  most  fre- 
quently cited].  (In  American  law  review,  Mar.- Apr.,  1903.  v.  37, 
p.  310-313.)  (Anon.  Signed  "X.  Y.  Z.") 

Cancellation  of  instruments.  (In  Cyclopedia  of  law  and  procedure. 
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Stephen  Johnson  Field.  (In  W.  D.  Lewis'  Great  American  lawyers. 
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John  Norton  Pomeroy.     (In  same,  1909.    v.  8,  p.  89-135,  1  por.) 

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cedure. 1910.  v.  36,  p.  528-796.) 

(Pomeroy   was    editor-in-chief   of   the    Columbia   law   times,    New 
York,  in  1889-1890.) 

JOHN  ROGERS   (JR.),  M.D.: 

Books 

A  manual  of  operative  surgery;  by  Lewis  A.  Stimson  and  John  Rogers, 
Jr.  3d  edition.  610  p.  Philadelphia,  Lea  Bros.  &  Co.,  1895. 

Articles 
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Dec.  31,  1892.     v.  56,  p.  742-743.) 
Hare  lip  and  cleft  palate.     (In  Keating's  Encyclopedia  of  children's 

diseases.     Philadelphia,  1896  [?].) 
Postdiphtheritic  stenosis  of  the  larynx  (retained  intubation  instruments 

and  retained  tracheal  canulae).     (In  Annals  of  surgery.     May,  1900. 

v.  31,  p.  547-571.) 


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v.  59,  p.  641-645.) 
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surgery,  Aug.,  1903.     v.  38,  p.  280-291.) 
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1904.    v.  84,  p.  641-645.) 
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bibliography].      (In  Annals   of  surgery,  Apr.,   1904.     v.  39,  p.  512- 

526.) 
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American  journal  of  the  medical  sciences,  Nov.,  1905.     New  series, 

v.  130,  p.  793-818,  il.) 
Same,  abridged,  with  introduction  by  D.  Bryson  Delavan,  M.D.,  and 

with  title,  The  treatment  of  chronic  laryngeal  and  tracheal  stenosis. 

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gonococcique."      (In    Gazette    des    h6pitaux    de    Lyon,    1906.     v.    7, 

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of  the  American  Medical  Association,  Feb.  17,  1906.     v.  46,  p.  487- 

492.) 
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American  Medical  Association,  Sept.  1,  1906.     v.  47,  p.  655-660.) 
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Apr.,  1907.    v.  45,  p.  553-572,  il.) 
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American  journal  of  the  medical  sciences,  Apr.,  1908.     New  series, 

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Annals  of  surgery,  May,  1908.     v.  47,  p.  789-794.) 
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v.  2,  p.  297-329.) 
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medicine,  Aug.  1909.    v.  10,  p.  370-375,  followed  by  discussion.) 
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surgery,  Dec.,  1909.    v.  50,  p.  1025-1051.) 
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hypertrophy   of   the   thyroid.      (In    Annals    of    surgery,    Feb.,    1910. 

v.  51,  p.  145-172.) 
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thyroid  gland,  and  its  therapeutic  application;  experimental  studies. 

(In  Journal  of  the  American  medical  association,  Sept.  2,  1911.    v.  57, 

p.  801-807.) 
Five   cases   of   Graves'   disease.      (In   Annals   of   surgery,   Mar.,    1912. 

v.  55,  p.  460-466.) 
Can  I  send  my  son  to  Yale?   (In  Yale  alumni  weekly,  Oct.   16,   1914. 

v.  xxiv,  no.  4,  p.  82-84.) 
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alumni  weekly,  Dec.  4,  1914.     v.  xxiv,  no.  11,  p.  311-312.) 

(A  number  of  cases  presented  by  Rogers  at  meetings  of  the  New 

York  Surgical  Society  in  1903  and  later  years  are  reported  in  con- 
densed form  in  Annals  of  surgery,  v.  37,  39,  40,  41,  43,  49  and  57.) 

REV.  EDWARD  TALLMADGE  ROOT: 

"The  profit  of  the  many";  the  Biblical  doctrine  and  ethics  of  wealth. 

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(If  a  full  list  of  Root's  writings  could  be  made,  it  would  include  a 
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GRANT  ISAAC  ROSENZWEIG: 

(Rosenzweig  has  contributed  articles  to  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  papers, 
on  the  subjects  of  Corporations,  Partnership,  Life  insurance,  Pro- 
test, and  Big  gold  seal.  The  time  of  publication  was  in  1897  or 
earlier.) 

WILLIAM  ALBERT  SETCHELL: 

Books,  etc. 
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in  the  order  of  flowering;  by  Setchell  and  George  R.  Case.     12  p. 

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p.  35.) 
Some  aqueous  media  for  preserving  algae  for  class  material;  by  Setchell 

and  W.  J.  V.  Osterhout.     (In  Botanical  gazette,  Mar.,  1896.     v.  21, 

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Notes  on  kelps.     (In  Erythea,  Mar.,  1896.    v.  4,  p.  41-48,  1  pi.) 
Oscillatoria  trapezoidea,  Tilden.     (In  Erythea,  Apr.,  1896.     v.  4,  p.  69- 

71.) 

Notes  on  cyanophyceae — 1.     (In  Erythea,  May,  1896.    v.  4,  p.  87-89.) 
Tendril  structures  among  the  algae.      (In   Erythea,  June,  1896.     v.  4, 

p.  98-99.) 
Report  [concerning]  the  Botanical  Department.     (In  Marine  Biological 

Laboratory    at   Woods    Hole,    Mass.,   8th    annual    report,    for    1895. 

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Report  concerning  the  Botanical  Garden  [and  Herbarium]  of  the  Uni- 
versity.    (In  Report  of  work  of  the  Agricultural  Experiment  Sta- 
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The  elk-kelp.     (In  Erythea,  Dec.,  1896.    v.  4,  p.  179-184,  1  pi.) 
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Daniel  Cady  Eaton.  (In  Fern  bulletin,  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  July,  1900. 
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Notes  on  algae— 1.     (In  Zoe, ,  1901.     v.  5,  p.  121-129.) 

Algae  of  Northwestern  America;  by  Setchell  and  Nathaniel  Lyon  Gard- 
ner. Mar.  31,  1903.  (In  University  of  California  publications  in 
botany,  v.  1,  p.  165-418,  11  pi.) 

The  upper  temperature  limits  of  life.  (In  Science,  June  12,  1903.  New 
series,  v.  17,  p.  934-937.) 

Parasitic  florideae  of  California.  (In  Nuova  notarisia,  Modena,  Italy, 
April,  1905.  v.  16,  p.  59-63.) 

Limu  [a  Hawaiian  word  signifying  seaweed],  Apr.  12,  1905.  (In  Uni- 
versity of  California  publications  in  botany,  v,  2,  p.  91-113.) 

Post-embryonal  stages  of  the  laminariaceae.  Apr.  22,  1905.  (In  Uni- 
versity of  California  publications  in  botany,  v.  2,  p.  115-138,  3  pi.) 

Regeneration  among  kelps.  July  25,  1905.  (In  University  of  California 
publications  in  botany,  v.  2,  p.  139-168,  3  pi.) 

Gymnogongrus  Torreyi,  (Ag.)  J.  Ag.  (In  Rhodora,  July,  1905.  v.  7, 
p.  136-138.) 

[Report  on  the  Botanical  Garden.]  (In  Biennial  report  of  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  University  of  California,  1904-06.  p.  36-38.) 

The  Sierran  puff  ball.     (In  Sierra  Club  bulletin, ,  1906.    v.  6,  p.  39- 

42,  1  pi.) 

A  revision  of  the  genus  constantinea.  (In  Nuova  notarisia,  Modena, 
Italy,  Oct.,  1906.  v.  17,  p.  162-173.) 

Some  unreported  Alaskan  sphagna,  with  a  summary  of  the  cryptogamic 
work  of  the  University  of  California  botanical  expedition  to  Alaska 
in  1899.  Sept.  27,  1907.  (In  University  of  California  publications  in 
botany,  v.  2,  p.  309-315.) 

Two  new  hypogaeous  secotiaceae.     (In  Journal  of  mycology,  Nov.,  1907. 

v.  13,  p.  236-242,  1  pi.) 

[Report  on  the  work  of]  the  Department  of  Botany.  (In  Biennial 
report  of  the  President  of  the  University  [of  California],  1906-08. 
p.  113-117.) 

Nereocystis  and  pelagophycus.  (In  Botanical  gazette,  Feb.,  1908. 
v.  45,  p.  125-134.) 

Notes  on  Lycoperdon  sculp  turn  Harkness.     (In  Bulletin  of  the  Torrey 

Botanical  Club,  June,  1908.    v.  35,  p.  291-296,  1  pi.) 
Some   algae   from   Hudson   Bay;   by   Setchell   and   F.   S.    Collins.      (In 

Rhodora,  June,  1908.     v.  10,  p.  114-116.) 

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the  published  volumes  of  learned  societies,  which  the  above  list  fails 
to  include;  and  book  reviews  for  the  Nation,  the  American  journal  of 
science,  Erythea,  and  the  American  naturalist,  which  no  attempt  has 
been  made  to  enumerate. 

JAMES  ROCKWELL  SHEFFIELD: 

The    Presidency    and    Senator    Allison.      (In    Atlantic    monthly,    Apr., 

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584,  il.) 
"Mother  of  men — old   Yale";   speech   of  the   toastmaster   at   the   Yale 

dinner  to  President  Taft,  Mar.   19,  1909.      (In  Yale  alumni  weekly, 

Apr.  2,  1909.     v.  18,  p.  685-686.) 

(Sheffield  has  also  written  other  articles  in  magazines   and  other 

publications;    a    good    many    speeches    in    newspapers;    and    a    few 

speeches  published  otherwise.) 

WALTER  BRADLEY  SHEPPARD: 

Fight  against  forest  policy  just  selfish.  (In  Congressional  record, 
Mar.  1,  1909.  v.  43,  p.  3528  of  the  daily  edition.)  (Reprinted  from 
the  Denver  Republican  of  Feb.  9,  1909.) 

(From  1891  to  1898  Sheppard  was  editor  of  the  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y., 


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Democrat.  Later  he  was  for  five  years  editor  of  a  paper  in  Fort 
Collins,  Colo.  He  has  had  "stuff  printed  in"  Recreation,  Forestry, 
Youth's  companion,  Outdoor  life,  Forest  and  stream,  Evening  post, 
Springfield  Republican,  and  many  other  publications;  but  practically 
none  of  it  had  his  name  attached.) 

EDWARD  STAEHLIN,  M.D.: 

Spina  bifida,  with  report  of  two  cases.     (In  American  medicine,  Sept., 

17,  1904.     v.  8,  p.  491-492.) 
Two  cases  of  locomotor  ataxia  in  man  and  wife.     (In  Medical  record, 

Nov.  5,  1904.    v.  66,  p.  738.) 
Ectopic  gestation.     (In  Journal  of  the  Medical  Society  of  New  Jersey, 

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Clinical  and  operative  reports  of  cases  of  biliary  and  pancreatic  cal- 
culi; by  Staehlin  and  William  J.  Roeber.  (In  New  York  medical 

journal,  Oct.  28,  1905.     v.  82,  p.  904-909.) 
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A  case  of  excision  of  the  stomach  for  carcinoma.     (In  Journal  of  the 

Medical  Society  of  New  Jersey.     1908.     v.  5,  p.  235-237,  2  pi.) 
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of  New  Jersey,  1910.    v.  7,  p.  231-243.) 
Extirpation  of  the  rectum  for  adeno-carcinoma  by  the  Kocher  method; 

with    report    of    a   case.      (In    American    journal    of    surgery,    1910. 

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of    an    illustrative    case.      (In    Surgery,    gynecology    and    obstetrics, 

Nov.,  1910.    v.  11,  p.  479-481,  il.) 

WILLIAM  PIRRIE  TAYLOR: 

(About  twelve  years  ago  Taylor  was  editor  of  the  Alabama  Endeav- 
orer.) 

WILLIAM  LARNED  THACHER: 

A  recent  college  movement.  (In  Association  record,  Yale  University, 
Feb.,  1892.  v.  2,  no.  2,  p.  5-9.) 

(Thacher  has  written  frequently  for  the  Ojai  Valley  local  paper 
on  local  affairs.) 

FRANCIS  BACON  TROWBRIDGE: 

Champion  genealogy.  558  p.  por.  pi.  map,  facsim.  New  Haven, 
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magazines,  and  written  on  municipal  matters  for  the  local  news- 
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WILLIAM   RUTHERFORD   HAYES   TROWBRIDGE    (JR.): 

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Same.    London,  Unwin,  1895. 

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For  the  vagabond  hour.    296  p.     London,  Osgood,  1896. 
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Same.    229  p.    N.  Y.,  Lane,  1901  and  1903.     (Anon.) 
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FREDERICK  SEARLE  WOODWARD: 

(Woodward  has  written  articles  which  have  been  published  in  the 
Proceedings  of  the  Brooklyn  Engineer's  Club.) 

GEORGE  [STANLEY]  WOODWARD,  M.D.: 

Editor  of: 

Diary  of  Samuel  Richards.    Philadelphia,  1909. 

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Chemistry  of  colostrum  milk;  a  report  of  six  cases,      (In  Journal  of 

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House    epidemic    of    enteric    fever    among    children.      (In    Annals    of 

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House   epidemic   of   enteric    fever   among   children.      (In    Archives    of 

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A   clinical  method    for   the  estimation   of   breast   milk   proteids.      (In 

Philadelphia  medical  journal,  May  21,  1898.    v.  1,  p.  956,  il.) 
Same,  with  additions.     (In  Contributions  from  William  Pepper  Labora- 
tory of  Clinical  Medicine,  University  of  Pennsylvania.     1900.    p.  447- 

449,  il.) 
A  triumph  of  the  people;  the  story  of  the  downfall  of  the  political 

oligarchy  in  Philadelphia.     (In  Outlook,  Dec.  2,  1905.     v.  81,  p.  811- 

815.) 


484.  BIBLIOGRAPHY 


NON-GRADUATES 

JOSEPH  NOYES  BABCOCK: 

Securities  held  in  trust,  methods  for  the  control  and  safeguarding  of 
them  from  loss  and  for  their  proper  accounting.  (In  Proceedings 
of  the  13th  annual  meeting,  Trust  company  section,  American  bankers' 
association,  at  Denver,  Colo.,  Sept.  29,  1908.  p.  71-75.) 

Forms  for  trust  companies,  selected  and  arranged  by  a  committee  of 
the  Trust  company  section,  American  bankers'  association;  committee, 
Joseph  N.  Babcock,  Philip  S.  Babcock  [and  others].  140  p.  forms. 
N.  Y.,  American  bankers'  association,  1910. 

PHILIP  SHERIDAN  BABCOCK: 

Editor  of: 

Proceedings  of  13th  annual  meeting,  Trust  company  section,  American 

bankers'  association,  1908.     123  p.     4  por.     [N.  Y.]     Trust  company 

section,  American  bankers'  association,  1908. 
Compilation  of  laws  relating  to  trust  companies  of  the  United  States; 

compiled  by  Benjamin  J.  Downer,  supervised  by  Babcock.     516  p. 

N.  Y.,  American  bankers'  association,  1909. 
See  also,  for  P.  S.  Babcock  as  joint  compiler,  J.  N.  Babcock,  supra. 

ALBERTUS  HUTCHINSON  BALDWIN: 

The  "mouse-fish"  or  "sargassum  fish."  (In  St.  Nicholas,  Mar.,  1907. 
v.  34,  p.  456-457,  il.) 

Birds  with  wing-claws.  (In  St.  Nicholas,  Jan.,  1908.  v.  35,  p.  268,  il.) 
(Baldwin  has  written  various  magazine  articles  on  subjects  con- 
nected with  his  work:  Cotton,  pub.  at  Atlanta,  Dec.,  1912;  Trade 
promotion;  The  nation's  business;  Business  aids,  etc.  He  has  deliv- 
ered many  speeches  before  commercial  bodies,  and  reports  as  Chief 
of  Bureau  of  foreign  and  domestic  commerce  [from  Aug.,  1911]  and 
of  the  Bureau  of  manufactures  [from  Aug.,  1910].) 

THOMAS  LIVINGSTON  BAYNE  (JR.): 

(Bayne  is  editor  of  the  Industrious  hen,  a  monthly  magazine  pub- 
lished at  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  and  devoted  to  poultry  culture,  etc.) 

ELI  BEERS: 

Mind  as  a  cause  and  cure  of  disease,  presented  from  a  medical,  scien- 
tific and  religious  point  of  view.  218  p.  Chicago,  E.  Beers,  1914. 

FRANCIS  BERGSTROM: 

(Bergstrom  compiled  and  published  in   1896   a  directory  of  Yale 
graduates  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law.) 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  485 


JAMES  PHILIP  BOOTH: 

(Booth  was  editor  of  the  Report,  a  newspaper  of  San  Francisco, 
from  1888  to  1898,  and  is  now  editorial  writer  and  managing  editor 
of  the  Daily  evening  report,  San  Francisco,  and  a  syndicate  editorial 
writer  and  correspondent.) 

WILLIAM  BARRETT  BRINSMADE,  M.D.: 

Nitrous    oxid    as    an    anaesthetic    for    surgical    work.       (In    Brooklyn 

medical  journal,  ,  1898.     v.  12,  p.  427-434.) 

Congenital  dislocation  of  the  humerus.     (In  Brooklyn  medical  journal, 

— ,  1898.     v.  12,  p.  458-4GO.) 
Operating  gloves.      (In  Brooklyn  medical  journal,  ,  1898.     v.   12, 

p.  647.) 
Non-malignant  tumors  of  the  breast.      (In  Brooklyn  medical  journal, 

— ,   1900.     v.  14,  p.  899-902.) 
Primary  tubercular  myostitis.     (In  Transactions  of  the  Medical  Society 

of  the  State  of  New  York,  for  1904.     v.  98,  p.  366.) 
Madelung's   deformity  of  the  hands    [abstract  only].      (In   Annals   of 

surgery,  May,  1908.     v.  47,  p.  794-795,  1  pi.) 
Chyle  cysts  of  the  mesentery.     (In  Annals  of  surgery,  Oct.,  1908.    v.  48, 

p.  565-574.) 
Cholelithiasis;  diagnosis  by  X-ray.     (In  Long  Island  medical  journal, 

1908.     v.  2,  p.  274.) 

JOHN  CHRISTOPHER  BURCH: 

(Burch  has  written  a  number  of  articles  appearing  in  daily  papers, 
presumably  in  Nashville  and  Memphis,  Tenn.) 

CHARLES  SCHMECK  FOOS: 

Evening  high  schools.     (In  Education,  Sept.,  1903.    v.  24,  p.  16-27.) 
Evening  schools.     (In  Journal  of  education,  Jan.  14,  1904.    v.  59,  p.  21.) 
Annual  reports  of  Superintendent  of  schools,  1902-1903  and  1903-1904. 

(In   Annual   report   of  the   School   Board,   Reading,   Pa.,    1903-1904, 

p.  19-51,  2  pi.) 
The   aims   of  language.      (In   American   education,   Mar.,    1905.     v.   8, 

p.  407.) 
Reading,  a  medium  for  thought.     (In  American  education,  Apr.,  1905. 

v.  8,  p.  469.) 

Spelling.     (In  American  education,  May,  1905.    v.  8,  p.  544.) 
In  Reading.     (In  Journal  of  education,  Sept.  14,  1905.     v.  62,  p.  304- 

305.) 
The  keynote  of  manual  training.     (In  American  school  board  journal, 

Nov.,  1905.     v.  31,  no.  5,  p.  3.) 
Home  study.     (In  Journal  of  education,  Nov.  30,  1905.     v.  62,  p.  609- 

610.) 


486  BIBLIOGRAPHY 


What  geography  teaches.     (In  American  education,  Dec.,  1905.     v.  9, 

p.  212.) 
The  course  of  study.     (In  American  education,  Jan.,  1906.    v.  9,  p.  269- 

273.) 
Home   study;   without   it   progress   must   be   slow.      (In    Pennsylvania 

school  journal,  Jan.,  1906.) 
Evening   schools    of   Pennsylvania.      (In    Pennsylvania   school   journal, 

Apr.,  1906.) 
The  present  status  of  geography.     (In  American  education,  Apr.,  1907. 

v.  10,  p.  523-525.) 
The  function  of  the  high  school.      (In  Journal  of  education,  Oct.  17, 

1907.    v.  66,  p.  396-397.) 
Annual  reports  of  Superintendent  of  schools,  1904-1905  and  1905-1906. 

(In    Report   of  the   Board   of   Education,   Reading,   Pa.,    1906-1907. 

p.  44-62,  1  pi.) 
Postal  information  and  letter  writing.     (In  American  education,  Mar., 

1909.     v.  12,  p.  318-325.) 
State  educational  associations.     (In  Report  of  the  U.  S.  Commissioner 

of  education,  1909.     v.  1,  p.  251-274.) 

Normal  education  in  city  school  systems.    32  p.     [Reading,  Pa.,  1910.] 
(Foos  has  written  scores  of  articles  for  educational  papers,  and 

delivered  numerous  addresses,  many  of  them  published  in  newspapers 

and  educational  journals  throughout  the  United  States.) 

IRVING  OLMSTEAD: 

(Olmstead  writes  that  he  has   "written  some  contributions  of  no 
importance.") 

WILLIAM  AUSTIN  TOMES,  M.D.: 

Cystic  goitre  of  right  lobe  in  a  woman  24  years  of  age.  (In  Brooklyn 
medical  journal,  Dec.,  1904.  v.  18,  p.  448-449.) 

WILLIAM  DREW  WASHBURN   (JR.): 

Some  rejected  verse.    26  1.     N.  Y.,  Knickerbocker  Press,  1902. 

Minority  report  of  the  Committee  on  Investigation  of  Transportation 
Rates;  by  Washburn,  P.  A.  Gandrud,  W.  A.  Nolan,  submitted  to  the 
Minnesota  House  of  Representatives,  Apr.  6,  1905.  28  p.  [Minneap- 
olis, 1905.] 

Railroad  regulation.    16  p.     [Minneapolis,  1906.] 

Gettysburg;  address,  Stanley  Hall,  May  31,  1908.  14  p.  [Minneapolis, 
1908.] 

Party  promise  or  party  policy?     15  p.     [Minneapolis,  1909.] 

(Washburn  has   published   "editorials,   pamphlets,    alleged   poetry, 
stories  and  historical  sketches.") 


MISCELLANEOUS   AND   STATISTICAL 


THE   BENNETTO    SCHOLARSHIP 

It  seems  clear  that  the  Bennetto  Scholarship,  established  by  the 
Class  of  1887,  in  1903,,  and  first  awarded  in  that  year,  has  been 
reaching  and  benefiting  the  class  of  undergraduates  which  it  was 
intended  to  assist. 

Brief  sketches  of  the  men  who  have  been  its  recipients  from  its 
foundation  follow: 

1903.  Antonio  Johnston  Waring.    In  college  he  made  a  high  oration  stand; 

in  Junior  year  was  awarded  the  second  Ten  Eyck  prize,  and  was 
secretary  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  served  as  chairman  of  the 
editorial  board  of  the  Lit,  and  was  a  member  of  Chi  Delta  Theta 
and  Skull  and  Bones.  From  1903  to  1904  he  was  secretary  of 
the  Academical  Department  of  the  Yale  University  Christian 
Association;  from  1904  to  1908  was  a  medical  student  at  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New  York  City,  receiving  the 
degree  of  M.D.  in  1908,  and  from  May  to  December,  1908,  resided 
in  Colorado  with  a  brother  who  was  in  poor  health.  For  the  next 
two  years  he  was  surgical  interne  at  the  Presbyterian  Hospital, 
New  York  City.  He  is  now  practicing  his  profession  in  Savannah, 
Ga.,  being  associated  with  his  uncle  as  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
Oglethorpe  Sanitarium. 

1904.  Lawrence  Mason.     He  received  special  honors  in  English  and  philo- 

sophical oration  appointments,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Elihu 
Club  and  of  the  Pundits  in  college.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  News 
and  the  Record,  and  served  as  a  Class  historian.  From  1904  to 
1907  he  was  a  teacher  at  the  Hotchkiss  School,  Lakeville,  Conn. 
In  1907  he  was  appointed  instructor  in  English  in  Yale  College, 
which  position  he  still  holds.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from 
Yale  in  1911  and  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1913. 

1905.  *James  Joseph  Hogan.     At  Yale  he  acted  as  chief  marshal  of  his 

Class  in  the  Bicentennial  parade,  and  held  the  managership  of 
the  Yale  Dramatic  Association.  In  Senior  year  he  captained  the 
'Varsity  Football  Team,  and  was  a  member  of  Skull  and  Bones. 
From  1905  to  1908  he  was  a  student  in  the  Columbia  Law  School, 
where  he  was  on  the  staff  of  the  Law  Review.  He  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1908,  and  after  a  short  period  with  the  law 
firm  of  Hatch  &  Clute  accepted  an  appointment  under  Com- 
missioner Edwards  of  New  York  City  as  deputy  street  cleaning 
commissioner.  This  position  he  filled  with  credit,  but  resigned 
early  in  1910  in  order  to  take,  up  active  law  practice  with  the  firm 
of  Simpson,  Thacher  &  Bartlett  of  New  York.  He  died  March 


490  MISCELLANEOUS 


20,  1910,  at  the  Elm  City  Hospital,  New  Haven,  from  Bright's 
disease,  which  was  greatly  aggravated  by  an  attack  of  grippe  con- 
tracted in  January.  The  James  J.  Hogan  Scholarship  in  the 
Academical  Department  was  established  in  his  memory  in  1911 
by  the  Winthrop  Trust  Association  (Yale  chapter  of  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon). 

1906.  Donald  Bruce.     In  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years  he  received  the 

Barge  Mathematical  prize  and  in  his  Senior  year  the  Waterman 
Scholarship  ($800).  He  held  a  philosophical  oration  stand,  and 
belonged  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Chi  Delta  Theta,  Skull  and  Bones 
and  the  Kitcat  Club.  He  served  on  the  editorial  board  of  both 
the  Lit  and  the  Courant.  For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was 
instructor  of  mathematics  and  physics  at  Williston  Seminary, 
Easthampton,  Mass.  The  next  two  years  were  spent  in  the  Yale 
School  of  Forestry,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  M.F. 
in  1910.  He  entered  the  United  States  Forest  Service  on  July 
1,  1910,  as  forest  assistant  in  the  Helena  National  Forest.  A 
year  afterwards  he  was  transferred  to  the  Coeur  d'Alene  National 
Forest,  Idaho,  and  later  he  became  forest  examiner  at  District  1 
headquarters.  At  present  he  is  located  at  Kalispell,  Mont.,  as 
supervisor  of  the  Flathead  National  Forest,  but  at  the  beginning 
of  the  next  academic  year  he  will  take  up  his  new  work  as  assist- 
ant professor  of  forestry  at  the  University  of  California. 

Harry  Beal.  He  was  in  college  the  holder  of  the  second  Ten  Eyck 
prize,  and  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  of  which  he  was  vice- 
president,  and  the  Pundit  Club.  He  was  given  philosophical 
oration  appointments,  and  served  as  president  of  the  Yale  Debat- 
ing Union  and  of  the  Berkeley  Association.  He  received  the 
Bennetto  Scholarship  at  the  beginning  of  Senior  year,  after  Bruce 
had  been  transferred  to  the  Waterman  Scholarship.  From  1906 
to  1908  he  was  a  master  in  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H., 
teaching  Latin  and  English.  Spent  one  year  in  the  General 
Theological  Seminary  in  New  York  City,  and  the  next  two  years 
in  the  Episcopal  Theological  School  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  from 
which  he  received  the  degree  of  B.D.  in  1911.  He  was  made  a 
deacon  in  the  Episcopal  church  by  the  Bishop  of  Central  New 
York,  and  for  a  time  had  charge  of  three  country  missions  in 
Lewis  County,  N.  Y.  After  being  ordained  to  the  priesthood,  he 
became  rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Constableville,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  remained  until  October,  1914,  when  he  accepted  a  call  to  the 
Church  of  the  Messiah  of  West  Newton  and  Auburndale,  Mass. 

1907.  William  Bradford  Roulstone.     With  Stephen  D.  Thaw,  '07,  was   a 

founder  of  the  Yale  Monthly  Magazine,  and  also  served  as  co- 
editor  of  the  Courant.  He  was  president  of  the  Berkeley  Asso- 
ciation. On  account  of  ill  health  he  did  not  receive  his  degree 


THE  BENNETTO  SCHOLARSHIP  491 

with  the  Class.  It  was  voted  to  him  in  1911  with  enrollment  in 
the  Class  of  1907.  In  1909  he  organized  the  Atlas  Paint  Com- 
pany of  New  York  and  Nashville.  The  next  year  he  took  up 
the  bond  business  and  ranching  in  San  Francisco,  at  the  same 
time  reading  law.  He  is  now  secretary  to  Justice  Seabury  of  the 
New  York  Supreme  Court. 

1908.  Lewis  Charles  Everard.    In  college  he  won  the  John  Addison  Porter 

prize  in  American  history,  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and 
made  a  philosophical  oration  stand.  He  was  captain  of  the  Yale 
Gymnastic  Team.  He  studied  abroad  on  the  Borden  Fellowship 
in  1909,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  Yale  in  1910.  In 
the  fall  of  1911  he  was  appointed  to  an  instructorship  in  English 
in  Yale  College,  a  position  which  he  resigned  in  the  winter  of 
1915,  to  become  assistant  editor  of  the  Forest  Service  publications 
at  Washington,  D.  C.,  under  Herbert  A.  Smith,  '89. 

1909.  James  Lukens  McConaughy.    In  Sophomore  year  he  was  awarded  the 

C.  Wyllys  Betts  prize,  the  next  year  received  the  second  Ten 
Eyck  prize,  and  he  held  a  high  oration  stand  throughout  his 
course.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Courant  board,  was  a  member 
of  three  class  and  two  department  debating  teams  and  of  the 
University  Debating  Team  which  won  against  Princeton  in  1909, 
and  served  as  president  of  the  Yale  Debating  Union.  After 
graduation  he  became  instructor  in  English  and  secretary  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  Bowdoin  College,  Brunswick,  Maine.  In  1910  he 
became  assistant  professor  of  education  and  English,  later  being 
raised  to  a  full  professorship  in  those  subjects.  In  addition  to  his 
teaching  activities  at  Bowdoin,  he  has  served  as  acting  dean.  He 
will  shortly  join  the  faculty  of  Dartmouth  College,  as  professor 
of  education  and  executive  secretary  of  the  committee  on  admis- 
sion. (He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  Bowdoin  in  1911, 
and  that  of  Ph.D.  from  Columbia  University  in  1913.) 

1910.  John  Joseph  MacCarthy.     He  received  high  oration  appointments  in 

college  and  tied  for  the  last  place  on  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  list. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  editorial  board  of  the  Tale  Courant  and 
a  member  of  the  Kitcat  Club.  Upon  graduation  he  entered  the 
Yale  School  of  Law,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
cum  laude  in  1913.  He  was  then  for  a  time  in  the  law  firm  of 
Trowbridge  &  Fox  in  New  York  City,  later  becoming  connected 
with  the  firm  of  Taft  &  Stobbs  of  Worcester,  Mass. 

Wayland  WTells  Williams.  Received  the  Bennetto  Scholarship  after 
MacCarthy  was  awarded  the  Stanley  Scholarship.  He  received  a 
philosophical  oration  appointment,  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  Chi  Delta  Theta,  Psi  Upsilon,  the  Yacht  Club  and  the 
Cercle  Fran£ais,  of  which  he  was  vice-president  in  Senior  year, 


492  MISCELLANEOUS 


and  was  a  Pundit.  He  spent  the  greater  part  of  the  first  year 
following  graduation  in  Munich,  Germany,  studying  history  and 
German.  Returning  to  America  in  the  fall  of  1911,  he  remained 
in  New  Haven  during  the  winter,  continuing  his  studies  in  Eng- 
lish. In  the  summer  of  the  following  year  he  joined  the  staff 
of  the  New  York  Evening  Post  as  a  reporter. 

1911.  William  Archibald  McAfee.     In  college  he  received  a  philosophical 

oration  appointment  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He 
sang  on  the  Freshman  Glee  Club  and  in  the  College  Choir.  He 
was  secretary  of  the  Freshman  and  president  of  the  University 
Debating  unions.  He  was  manager  of  the  University  Dramatic 
Association,  and  on  its  press  committee,  editor  of  the  Yale  Courant 
and  Yale  Banner  and  Pot  Pourri,  and  chairman  of  the  1911  Dwight 
Hall  financial  committee  and  Dwight  Hall  Information  Bureau. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Kitcat  and  Corinthian  Yacht  clubs,  Psi 
Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key.  During  the  first  year  after  grad- 
uation he  taught  at  The  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.  In  the  fall 
of  1912  he  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School,  where  he  is  now  a 
member  of  the  Third  Year  Class. 

1912.  Charles    Abrani    Parcells.      In    college    he    received    a    philosophical 

oration  appointment  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
He  sang  on  the  Apollo  and  'Varsity  Glee  clubs,  and  was  a 
leader  of  the  Apollo  in  Junior  year.  He  managed  the  Lowell 
House  Glee  Club,  and  sang  in  other  charitable  institutions. 
He  played  on  the  Senior  Giants  Football  Team,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  Haven  Oratorio  Society,  the  Elizabethan  Club 
and  Zeta  Psi.  After  graduation  he  was  for  a  time  in  the  employ 
of  W.  D.  Washburn,  Jr.  (ex-Sl  and  '88),  real  estate  and  insur- 
ance, of  Minneapolis,  Minn.  Since  the  fall  of  1913  he  has  served 
as  an  assistant  in  the  dean's  office  of  Yale  College,  at  the  same 
time  taking  work  in  English  in  the  Graduate  School. 

Allan  Richardson  Bensinger.  He  received  the  Bennetto  Scholar- 
ship after  Parcells  was  transferred  to  the  Waterman  Scholarship. 
In  college  he  received  a  high  oration  appointment,  and  was  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  was  active  in  the  Oak  Street 
Boys'  Club,  was  on  the  Freshman  Glee  Club  and  Choir,  and 
received  the  Trowbridge  prize  for  singing  from  the  School  of 
Music.  He  was  a  member  of  Beta  Theta  Pi.  Since  1912  he  has 
been  engaged  in  teaching  at  the  Chestnut  Hill  Academy,  Chestnut 
Hill,  Pa. 

1913.  Philip    Burnham    Buzzell.      In    college    he    received    a    philosophical 

oration  appointment  and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He 
was  awarded  the  John  Hubbard  Curtis,  the  Donald  Annis  and  the 
Class  of  1868  prizes.  He  contributed  to  the  Record,  and  partici- 


THE  BENNETTO  SCHOLARSHIP  493 

pated  in  rowing.    After  taking  his  B.A.  he  entered  the  Yale  School 
of  Law,  and  is  now  in  the  Third  Year  Class. 

Arthur  Neutral  Sheriff.  He  held  the  Chicago  Alumni  Scholarship, 
and  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  received  a  philosophical 
oration  appointment,  was  a  member  of  the  University  Orchestra 
all  four  years,  engaged  in  Boys'  Club  and  other  religious  work, 
and  was  a  member  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  and  the  Freshman  Track 
Team.  He  has  been  taking  graduate  work  in  English  at  Yale 
since  his  graduation,  holding  the  Porter  Fellowship  in  1913-14, 
and  the  Ellen  Battell  Eldridge  Fellowship  the  past  year. 

1914.  Theodore  Edward  Caruso.  He  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1915, 
but  received  his  degree  in  June,  1914,  having  completed  his  work 
in  three  years.  He  received  honors  in  the  studies  of  Freshman 
year,  in  1912  was  given  the  Andrew  D.  White  history  prize,  was 
Learned  Scholar  that  year,  and  in  1913  was  awarded  the  Philo 
Sherman  Bennett  prize.  During  1913-14  he  held  the  Bennetto 
Scholarship.  He  attained  a  philosophical  oration  stand,  and  was 
a  member  of  Beta  Theta  Pi.  At  present  he  is  taking  graduate 
work  in  philosophy  at  Yale,  being  the  holder  of  the  Foote  Fellow- 
ship. He  has  been  appointed  to  the  Ellen  Battell  Eldridge  Fellow- 
ship for  the  next  academic  year. 

1916.  Farwell  Knapp.  In  Freshman  year  at  Yale  he  received  honors,  and 
the  next  year  held  the  George  Benedict  Sherman  Scholarship, 
and  was  one  of  the  three  members  of  his  Class  between  whom  the 
third  Lucius  F.  Robinson  Latin  prize  was  divided.  He  received  a 
philosophical  oration  appointment,  and  has  been  the  Bennetto 
Scholar  during  the  past  year.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man Track  Team,  and  belongs  to  Psi  Upsilon. 


494 


MISCELLANEOUS 


LIST    OF    RECIPIENTS    OF    JOHN    HUBBARD    CURTIS 
PRIZE,  ESTABLISHED  IN  JUNE,  1900 

1901  Roy  Murdock  Mason,  '02,  and  Arthur  Stanley  Wheeler,  '02. 

1902  Arthur  Stanley  Wheeler,  '02,  and  Henry  Farrand  Griffin,  '03. 

1903  Pemberton  Berman,  '03,  and  Frederick  Erastus  Pierce,  '04. 

1904  Alexander  Gordon,  '04,  and  Allen  Perry  Love  joy,  '04. 

1905  Francis  Hartman  Markoe,  '06. 

1906  Francis  Hartman  Markoe,  '06. 

1907  *William  Sheldon  Whittlesey,  '07. 

1908  Lewis  Charles  Everard,  '08. 

1909  Henry  Dennis  Hammond,  '09. 

1910  William  Bakewell  Wharton,  '10,  and  Waldo  David  Frank,  '11. 

1911  George  Frederic  Ingersoll,  '11. 

1912  Philip  Burnham  Buzzell,  '13. 

1913  James  Edward  Meeker,  '13. 

1914  Richard  Junius  Hill,  Jr.,  '14. 


LIST   OF    RECIPIENTS   OF    THOMAS    HAMLIN    CURTIS 
SCHOLARSHIP,  ESTABLISHED   IN  JUNE,   1912 

1912  *Ray  Dashiell  Palmer,  '14. 

1913  *Ray  Dashiell  Palmer,  '14. 

1914  Charles  Parker  Eddy,  '16. 


PHELPS  GATEWAY 


THE   ALUMNI    FUND   AND    '87 

BY  JOHN  H.    KIRKHAM 

The  Alumni  University  Fund  Association  was  organized  in  1890. 
Everyone  who  has  been  a  student  in  any  department  of  the  Univer- 
sity is  invited  to  join  the  association  by  contributing  to  the  Fund, 
and  any  contribution,  however  small,  and  whether  or  not  it  is  con- 
tinued annually,  is  sufficient  qualification  for  membership.  Our 
Class  from  1890  to  1900  contributed  a  total  of  $3,020,  with  a  total 
of  eighty  different  contributors.  From  1900  to  1915  the  Class 
record  is  as  follows : 


Year 

1900 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 


No.  of  con- 
tributors 

58 
61 
45 
58 
52 
58 
49 
43 
31 
38 
37 
30 
90 
27 
45 


Amount 
&  800.00 
890.00 
646.00 
843.00 
720.00 

1,023.00 
732.00 

1,660.00 
582.00 
703.50 
682.00 
687.00 
10,000.00 
597.50 

1,056 . 50 


These  aggregate  $23,842.50.  Those  of  '87  S.  amounting  to 
$5,349.15  are  not  included  in  the  above.  During  the  first  decade 
there  were  three  classes  only — '65,  '66  and  '80 — whose  contribu- 
tions exceeded  those  of  '87.  Up  to  and  including  1914  there  were 
thirteen  classes  showing  totals  exceeding  ours,  viz.:  '65,  '74,  '76, 
'77,  '78,  '79,  '81,  '82,  '83,  '85,  '86,  '96  and  '97.  On  our  twenty- 
fifth  we  gave  $10,000  and  '87  S.  at  the  same  time  gave  $4,000.  On 


496  MISCELLANEOUS 


the  whole,  we  have  every  reason  to  feel  in  the  language  of  the 
modest  patriot,  Cicero,  "aliquid  loci  nostrce  glories"  in  '87's  record. 

O.  G.  Jennings  served  as  Class  Agent  from  1890  to  1910  and 
Thomas  for  the  past  three  years.  The  thanks  of  the  Class  are  due 
to  them  for  the  splendid  work  they  have  cheerfully  done  for  the 
common  cause.  On  account  of  pressure  of  work,  Thomas  has  now 
resigned  and  Kirkham  has  been  appointed  in  his  place. 

Gifts  to  the  Alumni  Fund  are  applied  to  general  university  pur- 
poses. As  a  matter  of  practice,  part  of  the  receipts  are  given  to 
the  University  to  be  used  for  whatever  current  expenses  the  authori- 
ties may  wish  and  the  balance  to  a  permanent  fund.  For  the 
past  few  years  a  considerable  sum  has  been  applied  to  increase  the 
salaries  of  the  teaching  force.  The  gifts  of  reunion  classes  are 
generally  added  to  the  principal  fund  which  now  amounts  to  the 
handsome  sum  of  $741,809.01.  Since  the  foundation  of  the  Fund 
there  has  been  appropriated  for  use  for  current  expenses  by  the 
University  $566,858.64.  The  treasurer  of  the  University  is  the 
treasurer  of  the  Alumni  Fund  Association. 

President  Hadley  said  at  the  recent  meeting  of  class  agents  in 
New  York,  "It  is  impossible  to  exaggerate  the  importance  of  this 
fund  to  the  University." 

The  faculty  feel  and  know  that  the  alumni  are  loyal  to  the 
University.  Once  the  importance  of  the  work  is  fully  appreciated 
by  all  the  alumni — and  it  is  not  yet,  even  after  twenty-five  years — 
there  is  little  doubt  that  a  majority,  instead  of  a  minority,  of  gradu- 
ates will  be  actively  interested  in  the  work  of  the  Association.  The 
number  of  contributors  this  year  is  4,053,  an  increase  of  429  over 
last  year,  the  largest  previous  record.  Yale  is  especially  in  need 
of  free  funds  and  the  alumni  are  proving  themselves  not  only  gen- 
erous, but  also  enlightened  givers.  Their  work  is  of  immense  value. 
It  is  an  important  manifestation  of  that  indefinable  "Yale  Spirit." 


STATISTICS 

OCCUPATIONS 

The  table  reproduced  below  is  taken  from  the  1914  Directory  of  Living 
Graduates  and  shows  the  distribution  by  occupations  of  the  members  of 
'87  compared  with  the  two  classes  preceding  and  following.  Law,  as  in 
all  Academic  classes,  leads  with  36,  followed  by  education,  14,  mercantile 
business,  13,  and  finance  and  medicine,  12  each.  There  is  no  '87  graduate 
in  permanent  civil  or  military  government  service,  although  two  are  mem- 
bers of  the  House  of  Representatives  and  one  is  connected  with  the  State 
Department  in  a  legal  capacity. 


1885 
1886 
1887 

1888 
1889 


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1 

11 

3 

18 

1 

31 

6 

6 

11 

9 

10 

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1 

_ 

2 

2 

15 

3 

15 

_ 

32 

1 

9 

8 

10 

5 

2      3 

_ 

2 

3 

1 

14 

3 

12 

- 

36 

7 

8 

12 

13 

6 

-      2 

1 

3 

2 

_ 

11 

4 

11 

3 

28 

1 

4 

18 

14 

8 

—          — 

_ 

1 

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REGISTER   OF   ATTENDANCE   AT   REUNIONS 

PREPARED   BY   WILLIAM   SAVAGE    BURNS 


+  indicates  men  present 

—  indicates  men  who  had  died 


Abell 

Adams 

Anderson 

Archbald 

Arn 

Babcock 

Beach 

Beard 

Bennetto 


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Berkele 

Bigelow 

Bissell 

Bliss 

Bonar 

Bowers 

Brady 

Brigham 

Brooks 


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STATISTICS 


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Brownson 

Burke 

Burns 

E.  L.  Caldwell 
M.  A.  Caldwell 
V.  B.  Caldwell 
Carlton 
Chambers 
Chase 
Clarke 

Cobb 

Cochrane 

Coit 

Copley 

Cornish 

Corwin 

Cowles 

Coxe 

Cullinan 

Cunningham 

J.  H.  Curtis 

T.  H.  Curtis 

Dann 

Diehl 

Douglass 

C.  C.  Ferris 

H.  B.  Ferris 

Francis 

Gaffney 

Gardiner 

Gates 

Gillespie 

Glisan 

Goodenough 

Grant 

Gray 

Guernsey 

Hand 

Hard 

Hare 

F.  W.  Hart 
H.  S.  Hart 
Hartridge 
Haven 
Hawkes 

F.  T.  Hill 

G.  E.  Hill 
Hinkle 


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Howe 
Hume 
Hunt 

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Hyde 

+ 

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Irvin 

+ 

Ivison 

+ 

Jenks 

+ 

+      +4 

C.  B.  Jennings 

+  + 

+  4-4-- 

O.  G.  Jennings 

+  + 

+  +  +  H 

Johnson 

+ 

Keeler 

4-4 

Keep 

Kendall 

— 

—  

Kent 

+  + 

+  4-  +  - 

Ketcham 

+  + 

King 

+  + 

T      4  — 

Kirkham 

+ 

4  —  1  —  1  — 

C.  A.  Knight 

+  + 

_l  — 

S.  Knight 

+  + 

4-  - 

Lee 

Leeds 

+ 

4-4-4-4 

Leffingwell 

Leverett 

4 

Lewis 

+  + 

+  +  +  - 

C.  H.  Ludington 

+ 

+          H 

W.  H.  Ludington 

4-  +  4 

Lyne 

J.  McCormick 

+ 

W.  McCormick 

+  + 

-L 

Maxwell 

+  + 

+  4-  +  4 

May 

Meacham 

-)- 

—  —  _ 

Middlebrook 

+ 

-1  —  1_ 

C.  T.  Morse 

4- 

R.  D.  Morse 

+ 

Nesbitt 

—  —  _  _ 

Norton 

+ 

+  +  +  4 

Partree 

+ 

+          4 

Peet 

Pennell 

+  + 

4-4-  - 

Penney 

Pen  rose 

A.  Perkins 

__ 

_|  L_ 

H.  F.  Perkins 

__ 

+  4-4 

Pettee 

-- 

+      +H 

Phelps 

4  — 

+      +4 

ATTENDANCE  AT  REUNIONS 


Pickett 

Playford 

Pomeroy 

Porter 

Pritchard 

Rogers 

Romaine 

Root 

Rosenzweig 

Scoville 

Setchell 

Seymour 

Sheffield 

Sheppard 

Simonds 

Smith 

Spencer 

Sprague 


1 1 1  i  1 1  i 

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a  >  a 


Staehlin 

Stein 

Taylor 

Thacher 

Thomas 

Thornton 

Torrey 

Tracy 

E.  Trowbridge 

F.  Trowbridge 
W.  Trowbridge 
Tuttle 
Waring 
Weed 
Whittlesey 

F.  S.  Woodward 

G.  Woodward 
Young 


NON-GRADUATES 


J.  N.  Babcock 

P.  S.  Babcock 

A.  H.  Baldwin 

C.  F.  Baldwin 

Barnum 

Bayne 

Beers 

Bergstrom 

W.  B.  Bissell 

Booth 

C.  H.  Brigham 

Brinsmade 

Bruorton 

Burch 

Carson 

Dana 

Dennen 

Eld  ridge 

Foos 

Goodwin 

Hawley 

W.  S.  Hume 

G.  M.  Hyde 


Olmstead 

Parsons 

Patten 

F.  H.  Pomroy 

Post 

Quimby 

Sanford 

Talmage 

Thompson 

Tomes 

Turney 

Vining 

Washburn 

M.E.  Wood  ward 

Wotkyns 

Wyeth 

Yates 

ATTENDANCE 

Graduates 

Non-Graduates 

Total 


+  +  + 


49  75  61  59  73  72 
115332 

50  76  66  62  76  74 


MARRIAGES  AND  CHILDREN 


501 


MARRIAGES  AND  CHILDREN 


GRADUATES 

[In  this  table  an  asterisk  is  used  to  indicate  decease;  when  the  sex  of  a 
child  is  not  known  the  number  has  been  enclosed  in  parentheses  in  the  first 
column.l 


NAME 

*Abell 
Adams 

Anderson 
Archbald 
Arn 

Babcock 
Beard 
Bigelow 
Bissell 
Bliss 
*Bonar 
Brady 

*Brigham 
Brooks 
Brownson 
Burke 

E.  L.  Caldwell 
V.  B.  Caldwell 
Carlton 
Chambers 

Chase 
Clarke 
Cobb 
Cochrane 
Coit 
Copley 
Cornish 
Cor  win 
Cowles 
Coxe 
Cullinan 
*T.  H.  Curtis 


DATE  or  MARRIAGE 

1888 

(1)  October  21,  1890 

(2)  November  7,  1907 
May  17,  1899 
October  21,  1897 
June  20,  1899 
July  12,  1892 
July  27,  1892 
April  13,  1901 
July  10,  1905 
September  22,  1902 
September  5,  1901 

(1)  June  28,  1893 

(2)  December   18,   1901 
April  26,  1894 
June  21,  1894 
December  28,  1892 
June  23,  1898 
March  22,  1894 
October  10,  1888 
June  10,  1908 

(1)  June  9,  1897 

(2)  April  23,  1901 
February  17,  1890 
January  7,  1901 
September  6,  1905 
October  30,  1902 
June  4,  1890 
March  3,  1892 
December  29,  1892 
October  6,  1888 
February  12,  1896 
June  4,  1891 
June  8,  1904 
June  4,  1907 


CHILDREN 
BOYS  GIRLS 


O        ~ 


1887 
1888 
1889 
1890 
1891 
892 
893 
1894 
1895 
896 
1897 
1898 
1899 
1900 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 


1905 

1306 

1307 

J308 

1909 

1910 

1911 

1912 

1913 


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(rat. 

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00         IP       O         — 


1887 

1888 

1889 

1890 

1891 

1892 

1893 

1894 

1895 

I89S 

1897 

[898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

I90J 

1906 

1907 

1908 

1909 

1910 

1911 

1912. 

1913 


9 


-    N     0» 


vj    00     O     O     — 


887 
888 
889 
890 
891 
892 
1893 
894 
1895 
1896 
1897 
1898 
1899 
1900 
1901 
I90Z 
1903 
1904 
1905 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
19)3 


MARRIAGES  AND  CHILDREN 


505 


CHILDREN 

NAME 

DATE  or  MARRIAGE 

BOYS 

GIRLS 

Dann 

(1)   March  31,  1902 

*1 

1 

(2)   April  2,  1908 

Diehl 

December  21,  1893 

2 

2 

Douglass 

-   June  5,  1905 

2 

C.  A.  Ferris 

(1)   January  14,  1897 

(2)   April  16,  1908 

1 

H.  B.  Ferris 

June  23,  1892 

1 

I 

Gaffney 

June  28,  1894 

*1  3 

1 

Gardiner 

February  22,  1909 

1 

1 

Gates 

November  9,  1893 

2 

Goodenough 

June  1,  1897 

1 

Guernsey 

August  8,  1888 

1 

1 

Hand 

January  12,  1893 

1 

*Hare 

October    14,    1891 

3 

3 

F.  W.  Hart 

June    14,   1893 

2 

2 

H.  S.  Hart 

February  22,  1896 

1 

1 

Hartridge 

December  17,  1895 

3 

Haven 

September  4,  1889 

1 

2 

Hawkes 

April  25,  1905 

1 

1 

F.  T.  Hill 

October  22,  1895 

1 

G.  E.  Hill 

April  20,  1910 

*Hinkle 

April  29,   1891 

2 

1 

Hyde 

June  30,  1891 

2 

*1  1 

*Ivison 

May  16,  1888 

2 

Jenks 

March  29,  1894 

C.  B.  Jennings 

November  17,  1892 

*1  1 

O.  G.  Jennings 

December  16,  1896 

2 

Keeler 

February  12,  1890 

2 

2 

*  Kendall 

December  1,  1891 

1 

Kent 

February  26,  1890 

5 

2 

Ketcham 

September  12,  1889 

2 

1 

King 

June  23,  1890 

*3  1 

3 

Kirkham 

April  29,  1896 

1 

1 

C.  A.  Knight 

April  11,  1894 

1 

1 

S.  Knight 

October  8,  1895 

Lee 

(1)   July  6,  1887 

1 

1 

(2)   November  3,   1897 

2 

Leeds 

October  24,   1894 

3 

Leffingwell 

June  11,  1894 

1 

3 

Leverett 

June  25,  1896 

1 

Lewis 

July  30,  1903 

C.  H.  Ludington 

April  24,  1895 

3 

W.  H.  Ludington 

June  1,  1910 

1 

Lyne 

April  23,  1906 

1 

506 


STATISTICS 


SANDY   HOLDING   HIS  OWN 


NAME 

*May 

*Meacham 
Middlebrook 
C.  T.  Morse 

Norton 


Partree 
Peet 
*Pennell 
Penney 
A.  Perkins 
H.  F.  Perkins 
Pettee 
Phelps 
Pickett 
Pomeroy 
Porter 


DATE  or  MARRIAGE 

April,  1890 
February  18,  1896 
September  19,  1893 

(1)  December  27,   1888 

(2)  September  14,  1907 

(1)  December  26,  1888 

(2)  May  6,  1891 

(3)  October  18,  1898 
June  26,  1895 
October  14,  1897 
October  15,  1891 
September   15,   1891 
May  22,  1895 
December  14,  1892 
August  27,  1888 
December  21,  1892 
August  6,  1902 
August  17,  1899 
June  12,  1894 


CHILDREN 
BOYS  GIRLS 


1 

(*2)   1 


MARRIAGES  AND  CHILDREN 

507 

CHILDREN 

NAME 

DATE  or  MARRIAGE 

BOYS 

GIRLS 

Pritchard 

(1)   April  23,  1889 

(2)    September  3,  1907 

Rogers 

November  27,  1895 

*1  1 

1 

Root 

February  21,  1893 

2 

Rosenzweig 

October  9,  1893 

Scoville 

June  1,  1892 

1 

Seymour 

May  20,  1908 

Sheffield 

November  2,  1898 

1 

Sheppard 

January  29,  1889 

Simonds 

March  8,  1892 

1 

1 

Smith 

September  5,  1888 

Spencer 

April  25,  1894 

1 

*1  1 

Taylor 

June  17,  1890 

1 

*1  1 

Thacher 

June  27,  1911 

1 

Torrey 

October  23,  1897 

Tracy 

June  24,  1893 

E.  P.  Trowbridge 

October  4,  1904 

F.  B.  Trowbridge 

June  30,  1898 

Tuttle 

April  27,  1897 

2 

Weed 

January  18,  1890 

*1  4 

*1  4 

*Whittlesey 

June  17,  1890 

1 

2 

F.  S.  Woodward 

June  4,  1898 

*1  2 

1 

G.  Woodward 

October  9,  1894 

4 

1 

Young 

February  15,  1890 

1 

(*4)   *11  128 

Total  graduates  married,  122 
Total  children  born,  254 


*6  105 


J.  N.  Babcock 
P.  S.  Babcock 
A.  H.  Baldwin 
C.  F.  Baldwin 

*Barnum 
Bayne 

*Bergstrom 
Bissell 
Burch 
Foos 
Goodwin 

*Hyde 


NON-GRADUATES 

Date  not  known 
November  8,  1890 
November  30,  1910 
June  18,  1896 
October,  1894 
March,   1891 
June  14,  1894 
September  25,  1894 
November  2,  1909 
November  28,  1895 
January  1,  1885 
January  11,  1899 


508 


STATISTICS 


NAME 

Parsons 
Patten 
Pomroy 
Sanford 
*Vining 
Washburn 
Wotkyns 


DATE  OF  MARRIAGE 

April  20,  1892 
October  16,  1889 
February  3,  1897 
May  21,  1913 
Date  unknown 
September  25,  1890 
October  12,  1887 


CHILDREN 
BOYS  GIRLS 


(*2)   15 


Total  non-graduates  reported  married,  19 
Total  children  born,  29 


MARRIAGES  AND  CHILDREN 


509 


COLLEGE    RECORD    OF    CHILDREN 


B.A.     Willoughby  Maynard  Babcock,  Jr. 

Louise  Frederica  Beard 

Stuart  Hill  Caldwell 

(son  of  E.  L.  Caldwell) 
B.A.     John  Hugus  Caldwell 

Victor  Bush  Caldwell 

(sons  of  V.  B.  Caldwell) 

Helen  Starkweather  Chase 
B.A.     Gertrude  Coit 
B.A.     Margaret  Trumbull  Corwin 

Wallace  Graham  Corwin 

Frederick  Brereton  Diehl 

Helen  Millington  Ferris 

(daughter  of  H.  B.  Ferris) 
B.A.     Mabel  Guernsey 
B.A.     John  Edwards  Guernsey 

George  Griswold  Haven,  Jr. 
B.A.     Albert  Emmett  Kent 

Thomas  Thacher  Kent 

William  Kent,  Jr. 
B.A.     Henry  Holman  Ketcham 
B.A.     Jennie  Gilbert  Jerome 
Ph.B.  Gilbert  Nelson  Jerome 

Huntington  Tomlinson  Morse 
(son  of  C.  T.  Morse) 

John  Schade  Norton 

Norman  Penney 

Charles  Patterson  Penney 

Thomas  Penney,  Jr. 

Franklin  Head  Perkins 

(son  of  H.  F.  Perkins) 
B.A.     Allen  Danforth  Pettee 

Frances  Howard  Pettee 

Edward  Root 

Helen  May  Scoville 


University  of  Minnesota 
Smith  College 
Yale  '17  S. 

Yale  '12 
Yale  '16 

Bryn  Mawr 
Smith  '13 
Bryn  Mawr  '12 
Yale  '17 
Yale  '17 
Vassar  '15 

Pomona  College  '12 

Pomona  College  '12 

Yale  '16 

Yale  '13 

Yale  '15 

Yale  '17 

Yale  '14 

Mount  Holyoke  '11 

Yale  '10  S. 

Yale  '16 

Yale  ex-'15 
Yale  ex-'W 
Yale  '17 
Yale  '18 
Yale  '16 

Yale  '11 
Wellesley  '18 
Amherst  College 
Wellesley  College 


14 


N 


887 
888 
889 
890 
891 
892 
893 
894 
895 
896 
897 
898 
899 
1900 
901 
902 
903 


NECROLOGY  511 


NECROLOGY 

William  Maitland  Abell,  died  January  7,  1908. 

Rodmond  Vernon  Beach,  died  September  29,  1898. 

John  Bennetto,  died  October  10,  1892. 

Elmer  Fox  Berkele,  M.D.,  died  August  20,  1892. 

Allan  Blair  Bonar,  M.D.,  died  August  14,  1913. 

Dwight  Eliot  Bowers,  died  April  9,  1907. 

William  Sinclair  Brigham,  died  May  23,  1906. 

John  Hubbard  Curtis,  died  January  13,  1898. 

Thomas  Hamlin  Curtis,  died  February  13,  1910. 

John  Minor  Gillespie,  M.D.,  died  February  20,  1908. 

Clarence  Glisan,  M.D.,  died  August  22,  1893. 

Henry  Earl  Hard,  died  September  26,  1908. 

Clinton  Larue  Hare,  died  June  4,  1909. 

Charles  Mills  Hinkle,  died  June  7,  1913. 

John  Howard  Hume,  died  March  26,  1912. 

Albert  Gay  Hunt,  died  May  21,  1905. 

DeWitt  Clinton  Huntington,  died  February  11,  1889. 

Henry  Ivison,  died  April  8,  1910. 

Allen  Wardner  Johnson,  died  June  9,  1905. 

John  Bassett  Keep,  died  April  9,  1901. 

William  Burrage  Kendall,  Jr.,  died  October  3,  1893. 

Henry  Lawton  May,  died  October  23,  1898. 

Franklin  Adams  Meacham,  M.D.,  died  April  14,  1902. 

George  Francis  Nesbitt,  died  November  27,  1900. 

Louis  Harman  Peet,  died  October  18,  1905. 

Arthur  Reed  Pennell,  died  March  10,  1903. 

Joseph  Lyle  Thornton,  Jr.,  died  June  17,  1890. 

James  Johnston  Waring,  Jr.,  died  July  6,  1887. 

Frederic  Roger  Whittlesey,  died  July  19,  1900. 


512 


STATISTICS 


LOCALITY  INDEX 

[A  dagger  is  used  to  indicate  non-graduates  and  ex-members.  Where 
residence  or  permanent  address  is  in  a  different  city  from  business  address, 
both  locations  are  given  in  this  index.] 


CALIFORNIA 

F  AIRFIELD: 

DISTRICT  OF 

BERKELEY: 

(C.  B.  Jennings) 

COLUMBIA 

fEldridge 

(O.  G.  Jennings) 

WASHINGTON  : 

fSanford 

HARTFORD  : 

(Anderson) 

Setchell 

Gates 

fA.  H.  Baldwin 

BEVERLY  HILLS: 

A.  Perkins 

Kent 
fPomroy 

fGoodwin 

LAKEVILLE  : 

ILLINOIS 

BURLINGAME  : 

fW.  B.  Bissell 

AURORA: 

(S.   Knight) 

NEW  BRITAIN: 

Copley 

CLARE  MONT: 
Guernsey 

Gaffney 
Kirkham 

CHICAGO: 
fBeers 

JCENXFIELD  • 

NEW  HAVEN: 

Brooks 

Corwin 

C.  T.  Morse 

(Kent) 

H.  B.  Ferris 

H.  F.  Perkins 

LAMANDA  PARK: 

Lewis 

Sprague 

Cobb 

W.  H.  Ludington 

Stein 

NORDHOFF: 
Thacher 

fPatten 
Phelps 
Scoville 

MORGAN    PARK  : 
(Brooks) 

SAN  FRANCISCO: 
fBooth 

E.  P.  Trowbridge 
F.  B.  Trowbridge 

URBANA  : 
Pomeroy 

S.  Knight 

NEW  LONDON: 

WINNETKA: 

Romaine 
(fSanford) 

SANTA  BARBARA: 
•j-Hawley 

Coit 

NORTH  HAVEN: 
(f  Patten) 

NORWICH  : 

(C.  T.  Morse) 
INDIANA 

ANDERSON: 
Brady 

VOLCANO  : 
•j-Dana 

Cunningham 

KANSAS 

PUTNAM  : 

KANSAS  CITY: 

COLORADO 

Torrey 

Arn 

DENVER  t 

F.  W.  Hart 

SOUTHPORT: 

MAINE 

Lyne 

C.  B.  Jennings 

GARDINER: 

FORT  COLLINS: 

STAMFORD: 

•j-Quimby 

Sheppard 

fOlmstead 

MASSACHUSETTS 

CONNECTICUT 

TORRINGTON  : 

BEVERLY  : 

BRIDGEPORT  : 

Partree 

Taylor 

Beard 
Cullinan 

WATEHBURY  : 

BOSTON  : 

G.  E.  Hill 

Chase 

Root 

EAGLEVILLE  : 

Goodenough 
Porter 

GREAT  BARRINGTON: 

Smith 

fWotkyns 

Pettee 

LOCALITY  INDEX                                  513 

HOLYOKE  : 

NEW  YORK 

Jenks 

Leeds 

BATH: 

O.  G.  Jennings 

NEWBURYPORT: 

Burns 

Ketcham 
Lee 

(Bliss) 

BINGHAMTON: 

Maxwell 

NEWTON  VILLE  : 

Seymour 

Middlebrook 
R.  D.  Morse 

E.  L.  Caldwell 

BRONXVILLE  : 

Rogers 

NORTH  ANDOVER: 

(Adams) 

Sheffield 

Bigelow 

SOMERVILLE  : 

Clarke 

BROOKLYN  : 
fBrinsmade 

Thomas 
Tracy 
Young 

(Root) 

Francis 

PEEKSKILL: 

SPRINGFIELD: 
Norton 

(Ketcham) 
fTomes 
Tuttle 

C.  A.  Knight 
RICHMOND  HILL: 

MINNESOTA 

BUFFALO: 

F.  S.  Woodward 

MINNEAPOLIS: 

Dann 

ROCHESTER: 

W.  M.  Babcock 

Penney 

Pritchard 

fWashburn 

CAMBRIDGE  : 

TUXEDO  PARK: 

MISSOURI 

H.  S.  Hart 

(Porter) 

KANSAS  CITY: 

CORTLAND: 

WHITE  PLAINS: 

Douglass 

Cornish 

Weed 

Rosenzweig 

DOBBS  FERRY: 

YONKERS  : 

NEBRASKA 

(Middlebrook) 

Leverett 

OMAHA: 

HARTSDALE  : 

Burke 

(C.  C.  Ferris) 

NORTH   CAROLINA 

V.  B.  Caldwell 

HUDSON  i 

BLANTYRE  : 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

(Cochrane) 

fC.  F.  Baldwin 

HAMPTON  : 
^•Thompson 

LANCASTER: 
(Dann) 

MANCHESTER: 
fBayne 

LITTLE  BRITAIN: 

OHIO 

NEW  JERSEY 

King 

DAYTON  : 

FLORHAM  PARK: 
(R.  D.  Morse) 

NEW  YORK  CITY: 
Adams 

Irvin 
PENNSYLVANIA 

JERSEY   CITY: 

Anderson 

AHDMORE  : 

Gray 
MONTCLAIR: 

fj.  N.  Babcock 
fP.  S.  Babcock 
Brownson 

(C.  H.  Ludington) 
(Spencer) 

Leffingwell 

M.  A.  Caldwell 

ERIE: 

NEWARK  : 

Carlton 
fCarson 

Diehl 

Staehlin 

Chambers 

HARRISBURG: 

PLAINFIELD  : 

Cochrane 

J.  McCormick 

Hyde 

(Tracy) 

C.  C.  Ferris 
Gardiner 
Grant 

PAOLI: 
Coxe 

UPPER  MONTCLAIR: 

Hartridge 

PHILADELPHIA  : 

(Leffingwell) 

Haven 
Hawkes 

C.  H.  Ludington 
Pickett 

WOOD  RIDGE: 

F.  T.  Hill 

Spencer 

(Lee) 

Howe 

G.  Woodward 

514  STATISTICS 


POTTSVILLE  : 

SOUTH  CAROLINA 

ENGLAND 

Archbald 

CHARLESTON  : 

HAMPSHIRE: 

READING  : 
fFoos 
W.  McCormick 

Simonds 

GOOSE  CREEK: 
Parsons 

(Gardiner) 

LONDON  : 
W.  R.  H.  Trowbridge 

SCRANTON  : 

Hand 
UNIONTOWN  : 

TENNESSEE 
MEMPHIS: 
fBurch 
Keeler 

GERMANY 
MUNICH: 
L.  D.  Bissell 

Playford 

WASHINGTON 

CHINA 

WAYNE  : 

SPOKANE  : 

SHAOWU: 

Penrose 

Cowles 

Bliss 

Number  of  names  in  this  list,  145 
Address  unknown,  1 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT 

The  author  here  acknowledges  his  indebt- 
edness to  Charles  Barmore  and  to  the  1914 
Class  Book  Committee  for  the  photograph 
of  President  Dwight  reproduced  in  this 
book. 


ROLL   OF   THE   CLASS 

GRADUATES 

*William  M.  Abell  *Died  1908. 

Charles  Adams,  111  Broadway,  New  York  City.     (Bronxville.) 
Chandler  P.  Anderson,  35  Wall  Street,  New  York  City.     (1618  Twenty- 
first  Street,  Washington,  D.  C.) 
James    Archibald,    Jr.,    405    Thompson    Building,    Pottsville,    Pa.       (1504 

Mahantongo  Street.) 

Rev.  Arthur  J.  Arn,  710  Barnett  Avenue,  Kansas  City,  Kans. 
Willoughby   M.   Babcock,   610   Temple   Court,   Minneapolis,   Minn.      (2504 

Lake  of  the  Isles  Boulevard.) 
*Rodmond  V.  Beach  *Died  1898. 

Rev.  Gerald  H.  Beard,  Ph.D.,  319  Barnum  Avenue,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
*John  Bennetto  *Died  1892. 

*Elmer  F.  Berkele  *Died  1892. 

Lewis  S.  Bigelow,  North  Andover,  Mass. 

Leslie  D.  Bissell,  Ph.D.,  Konradstrasse  14,  Munich,  Germany. 
Edward  L.  Bliss,  M.D.,  Shaowu,  via   Foochow,  China.      (Permanent  mail 

address,  10  Allen  Street,  Newburyport,  Mass.) 

*Allan  F.  Bonar,  M.D.  *Died  1913. 

*Dwight  E.  Bowers  *Died  1907. 

Arthur  W.  Brady,  824  West  Eighth  Street,  Anderson,  Ind. 

*William  S.  Brigham  *Died  1906. 

Wilson  Brooks,  230  South  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago,  111.     (11138  Western 

Avenue,  Morgan  Park.) 
Prof.  Carlton  L.  Brownson,  Ph.D.,  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  St. 

Nicholas  Terrace,  New  York  City.     (164  West  Seventy-fourth  Street.) 
Edward  L.  Burke,  813  Omaha  National  Bank,  Omaha,  Nebr. 
William  S.  Burns,  209  Liberty  Street,  Bath,  N.  Y. 
Ernest  L.  Caldwell,  11  Jenison  Street,  Newtonville,  Mass.) 
Middleton  A.  Caldwell,  Yale  Club,  New  York  City. 
Victor  B.  Caldwell,  United  States  National  Bank  of  Omaha,  Omaha,  Nebr. 

(630  South  Twentieth  Street.) 
Schuyler  C.  Carlton,  165  Broadway,  New  York  City.     (126  East  Twelfth 

Street.) 

Walter  B.  Chambers,  109  Broad  Street,  New  York  City.     (161  East  Sixty- 
fourth  Street.) 

Frederick  S.  Chase,  165  Grove  Street,  Waterbury,  Conn. 
Francis  C.  Clarke,  Bronxville,  N.  Y. 
San  ford  E.  Cobb,  Lamanda  Park,  Calif. 

Francis  Cochrane,  10  Wall  Street,  New  York  City.     (Hudson,  N.  Y.) 
Alfred  Coit,  Manwaring  Building,  New  London,  Conn.     (146  Huntington 

Street.) 

Ira  C.  Copley,  Aurora,  111. 
William  A.  Cornish,  32  Oswego  Street,  Cortland,  N.  Y. 


516  STATISTICS 


Prof.  Robert  N.  Corwin,  Ph.D.,  247  St.  Ronan  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
William   H.   Cowles,   Spokesman   Review,   Spokane,    Wash.      (2602    West 

Second  Avenue.) 
Alexander  B.  Coxe,  Paoli,  Pa. 

John  J.   Cullinan,  Jr.,  Sanford  Building,   Bridgeport,  Conn.      (160   Elm- 
wood  Place.) 

Joseph  T.  Cunningham,  161  Main  Street,  Norwich,  Conn. 
Mohn  H.  Curtis  *Died  1898. 

'Thomas  H.  Curtis  *Died  1910. 

Henry  A.  Dann,  1032  White  Building,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.     (Lancaster,  N.  Y.) 
John  C.  Diehl,  510  Myrtle  Street,  Erie,  Pa. 
WTillard  R.  Douglass,  217  Glendale  Building,  Kansas  City,  Mo.     (116  West 

Thirty-eighth  Street.) 
Clarence  C.  Ferris,  35  Wall  Street,  New  York  City.     (Hartsdale,  West- 

chester  County,  N.  Y.) 

Prof.  Harry  B.  Ferris,  M.D.,  395  St.  Ronan  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Frederic  W.  Francis,  179  St.  Mark's  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Bernard    F.    Gaffney,   338   Main    Street,    New    Britain,    Conn.      (47    Vine 

Street.) 
Robert    A.    Gardiner,    Union    Club,    New    York    City.      (Langley,    Liss, 

Hampshire,  England.) 

Andrew  F.  Gates,  11  Central  Row,  Hartford,  Conn.     (12  Willard  Street.) 

Mohn  M.  Gillespie,  M.D.  *Died  1908. 

*Clarence  Glisan,  M.D.  *Died  1893. 

Edward  W.  Goodenough,  M.D.,  44  Leavenworth  Street,  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Madison  Grant,  11  Wall  Street,  New  York  City.     (22  East  Forty-ninth 

Street.) 

Robert  B.  Gray,  37  Astor  Place,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 
George  H.  Guernsey,  M.D.,  Claremont,  Calif. 
William  J.  Hand,  607-8-9  Peoples  National  Bank  Building,  Scranton,  Pa. 

(801  Webster  Avenue.) 

*Henry  E.  Hard  *Died  1908. 

*Clinton  L.  Hare  *Died  1909. 

Rev.  Frederic  W.  Hart,  1016  Thirtieth  Street,  Denver,  Colo. 
Horace  S.  Hart,  M.D.,  Cambridge,  Washington  County,  N.  Y. 
Clifford  W.  Hartridge,  149  Broadway,  New  York  City.     (37  West  Forty- 
fourth  Street.) 
George  G.  Haven,  30  Broad  Street,  New  York  City.     (6  East  Fifty-third 

Street.) 

Forbes  Hawkes,  M.D.,  124  East  Sixty-fifth  Street,  New  York  City. 
Frederick  T.  Hill,  56  Wall  Street,  New  York  City.     (257  West  Eighty-sixth 

Street.) 
George    E.    Hill,    Security    Building,    Bridgeport,    Conn.      (926    Fairfield 

Avenue.) 

*Charles  M.  Hinkle  *Died  1913. 

Clarke  W.  Holly,  M.D.     (Address  unknown.) 


ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS  517 

Frank    C.    Howe,    1923    Broadway,    New    York    City.      (606    West    191st 
Street.) 

*John  H.  Hume  *Died  1912. 

*Albert  G.  Hunt  *Died  1905. 

*DeWitt  C.  Huntington  *Died  1889. 

Louis  K.  Hyde,  149  North  Avenue,  Plainfield,  N.  J.     ("Oakmont.") 

Obed  W.  Irvin,  First  Savings  &  Banking  Company,  Dayton,  Ohio.      (39 

East  Third  Street.) 

*Henry  Ivison  *Died  1910. 

Robert  I.   Jenks,   1   Broadway,   New  York  City.      (54   East   Sixty-fourth 

Street.) 

Charles  B.  Jennings,  Southport  Savings  Bank,  Southport,  Conn.      (Fair- 
field,  Conn.) 
Oliver  G.  Jennings,  51  Wall  Street,  New  York  City.      (Fairfield,  Conn., 

and  7  East  Seventy-second  Street,  New  York  City.) 

*Allen  W.  Johnson  *Died  1905. 

Charles    Keeler,    1274    Madison   Avenue,   Memphis,   Tenn.      (1789    Linden 

Avenue.) 

*John  B,  Keep  *Died  1901. 

*William  B.  Kendall,  Jr.  *Died  1893. 

William  Kent,  House  of  Representatives,  Washington,  D.  C.     (Kentfield, 

Calif.) 
Henry  B.  Ketcham,  2  Rector  Street,  New  York  City.     (108  Willow  Street, 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.) 

Rev.  J.  Scott  King,  Little  Britain,  N.  Y. 

John  H.  Kirkham,  City  Hall,  New  Britain,  Conn.     (49  Cedar  Street.) 
Charles  A.  Knight,  M.D.,  1028  Main  Street,  Peekskill,  N.  Y. 
Samuel   Knight,    1303   Hobart   Building,   San   Francisco,   Calif.      (Burlin- 

game  P.  O.,  San  Mateo  County,  Calif.) 

Yan  Phou  Lee,  229  Park  Row,  New  York  City.     (Wood  Ridge,  N.  J.) 
Alfred  Leeds,  American   Waiting  Paper  Company,  Holyoke,   Mass.      (27 

Ridgewood  Terrace.) 
Frank  D.  Leffingwell,  460  Bloomfield  Avenue,  Montclair,  N.  J.     (716  Valley 

Road,  Upper  Montclair,  N.  J.) 

John  Leverett,  M.  D.,  Albemarle  Place,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 
Robert  H.  Lewis,   171  Orange  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn.      (193  Bassett 

Street.) 
Charles    H.    Ludington,    Curtis    Publishing    Company,    Philadelphia,    Pa. 

(Ardmore,  Pa.) 

William  H.  Ludington,  424  St.  Ronan  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Henry   Lyne,   Room   813,    First    National    Bank    Building,   Denver,    Colo. 

(728  Clarkson  Street.) 
James  McCormick,  Jr.,  Cameron  Building,  Harrisburg,  Pa.      (101   North 

Front  Street.) 
William   McCormick,    13    North    Fifth    Street,    Reading,    Pa.      (524    Elm 

Street.) 


618  STATISTICS 


Robert  Maxwell,  334  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York  City.     (524  Fifth  Avenue.) 

*Henry  L.  May  *Died  1898. 

*Franklin  A.  Meacham,  M.D.  *Died  1902. 

Joseph  W.  Middlebrook,  82  Beaver  Street,  New  York  City.     (Dobbs  Ferry, 

N.  Y.) 
Clarence    T.   Morse,    1538    Tribune    Building,   Chicago,    111.      (517    Cherry 

Street,  Winnetka,  111.) 
Richard  D.   Morse,  25   Broad  Street,  New  York  City.      (Florham   Park, 

N.  J.) 

*George  F.  Nesbitt  *Died  1900. 

Edward  H.  Norton,  G.  &  C.  Merriam  Company,  Myrick  Building,  Spring- 
field, Mass.     (11  Maplewood  Terrace.) 
Homer  T.  Partree,  M.D.,  Torrington,  Conn. 

*Louis  H.  Peet  *Died  1905. 

*Arthur  R.  Pennell  *Died  1903. 

Thomas  Penney,  Norton,  Penney,  Spring  &  Moore,  Ellicott  Square,  Buffalo, 

N.  Y.     (54  Hodge  Avenue.) 

Thomas  N.  Penrose,  409  Beechtree  Avenue,  Wayne,  Pa. 
Arthur  Perkins,  803  Main  Street,  Hartford,  Conn.     (95  Niles  Street.) 
Herbert  F.  Perkins,  606  South  Michigan  Boulevard,  Chicago,  111.      (6106 

Kenrnore  Avenue.) 

George  D.  Pettee,  Great  Barrington,  Mass. 

Prof.  William  L.  Phelps,  Ph.D.,  110  Whitney  Avenue,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Frederick  S.  Pickett,  M.D.,  204  Commercial  Trust  Building,  Philadelphia, 

Pa.     (2035  Chestnut  Street.) 

Robert  W.  Playford,  Uniontown,  Fayette  County,  Pa. 
Prof.  John   N.   Pomeroy  University  of  Illinois,  Urbana,  111.      (916   West 

Oregon  Street.) 
Thomas  W.  Porter,  Patent  Button  Company,  Waterbury,  Conn.     (Tuxedo 

Park,  N.  Y.) 

Albert  R.  Pritchard,  273  Barrington  Street,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
John  Rogers,  M.D.,  102  East  Thirtieth  Street,  New  York  City. 
Benjamin    Romaine,    822    Mills    Building,    San    Francisco,    Calif.      (3281 

Jackson  Street.) 
Rev.    Edward   T.    Root,    53    Mount   Vernon    Street,    Boston,    Mass.      (55 

Putnam  Street,  Somerville,  Mass.) 
Grant  I.  Rosenzweig,  1311  Commerce  Building,  Kansas  City,  Mo.     (3740 

Gilhain  Road,  West.) 

Rev.  Charles  O.  Scoville,  422  Temple  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Prof.  William  A.  Setchell,  Ph.D.,  University  of  California,  Berkeley,  Calif. 
Lewis  Seymour,  706  Security  Mutual  Building,  Binghamton,  N.  Y.      (25 

North  Street.) 

James  R.  Sheffield,  52  William  Street,  New  York  City.     (45  East  Sixty- 
seventh  Street.) 
Walter  B.  Sheppard,  Fort  Collins,  Colo. 


ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS  519 

John  C.  Simonds,  First  National  Bank,  Charleston,  S.  C.     (39  East  Battery 
Street.) 

Frank  C.  Smith,  Ph.D.,  R.  F.  D.,  Eagleville,  Conn. 

Paul  Spencer,  1401  Arch  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa.     (Glenn  Road,  Ardmore, 
Pa.) 

Frederick  Sprague,  15  Michigan  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 

Edward  Staehlin,  M.D.,  15  Lincoln  Park,  Newark,  N.  J. 

Maximilian  L.  Stein,  91T  East  Fiftieth  Street,  Chicago,  111. 

William  P.  Taylor,  Beverly  Independent  Industrial  School,  Beverly,  Mass. 
(75  Corning  Street.) 

William  L.  Thacher,  Thacher  School,  Ojai  Valley,  Nordhoff,  Calif. 

Richard  S.  Thomas,  70  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City.     (9  East  Thirty- 
ninth  Street.) 
*Joseph  L.  Thornton,  Jr.  *Died  1890. 

Charles  I,.  Torrey,  New  Bradley  Building,  Elm  Street,  Putnam,  Conn.     (74 
Grove  Street.) 

Howard  C.  Tracy,  160  Broadway,  New  York  City.     (1331  Prospect  Ave- 
nue, Plainfield,  N.  J.) 

Elford  P.  Trowb ridge,  116  Church  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn.     (258  Church 
Street.) 

Francis  B.  Trowbridge,  353  Temple  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

William  R.  H.  Trowbridge,  33  Buckingham  Gate,  London,  S.  W.,  England. 

Frank  D.  Tuttle,  40  Broadway,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.     (55  Remsen  Street.) 
*James  J.  .Waring,  Jr.  *Died  1887. 

William  X.  Weed,   169   Main  Street,  White   Plains,   N.  Y.      (147   Waller 

Avenue.) 
*Frederic  R.  Whittlesey  *Died  1900. 

Frederick  S.   Woodward,  3705   Chichester  Avenue,   Richmond  Hill,   Long 
Island,  N.  Y. 

George  Woodward,  M.D.,  Krisheim,  Chestnut  Hill,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

George   H.   Young,   25   Liberty   Street,    New   York   City.      (179    Madison 
Avenue.) 

Graduated,  150 
Living,  121 
Deceased,  29 


NON-GRADUATES  AND  EX-MEMBERS 

Joseph  N.  Babcock,  37  Wall  Street,  New  York  City. 

Philip  S.  Babcock,  Room  1204,  5  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City. 

Albertus  H.  Baldwin,  Department  of  Commerce  and  Labor,  Washington, 

D.  C.     (Cosmos  Club.) 
Charles    F.    Baldwin,   Woodlake    Farm,    Blantyre,    Transylvania    County, 

N.  C. 
*  Albert  W.  Barnum  *Died  1903, 


520  STATISTICS 


Thomas  L.  Bayne,  Manchester,  N.  C. 

Rev.  Eli  Beers,  5488  Ellis  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 
*Francis  Bergstrom  *Died  1912. 

William  B.  Bissell,  M.D.,  Lakeville,  Conn. 

James  P.  Booth,  Press  Club,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 
*Clayton  H.  Brigham  *Died  1897. 

William  B.  Brinsmade,  M.  D.,  117  Montague  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.     (166 

Columbia  Heights.) 
*Henry  W.  Bruorton  *Died  1885. 

John   C.    Burch,    Commercial    Publishing    Company,    Commercial   Appeal, 
Memphis,  Tenn.     (1460  Court  Avenue.) 

John  H.  Carson,  140  East  Sixty-second  Street,  New  York  City. 

Percy  WT.  Dana,  Volcano,  Amador  County,  Calif. 
*Stephen  H.  Dennen  *Date  unknown. 

John  R.  Eldridge,  M.D.,  2817  Garber  Street,  Berkeley,  Calif. 

Charles  S.  Foos,  School  Administration  Building,  Reading,  Pa. 

William  N.  Goodwin,  Beverly  Hills  Hotel,  Beverly  Hills,  Calif. 

Theodore  S.  Hawley,  Santa  Barbara,  Calif. 

*William  S.  Hume  *Date  unknown. 

*George  M.  Hyde  *Died  1899. 

Irving  Olmstead,  25  Oliver  Street,  Stamford,  Conn. 

Edwin  Parsons,  Goose  Creek,  S.  C. 

D.  Walter  Patten,  185  Church  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn.     (North  Haven, 
Conn.) 

Major  Frederic  H.  Pomroy,  care  Adjutant  General  U.  S.  A.,  Washington, 

D.  C. 

*George  C.  Post  *Died  1885. 

Rev.  Joseph  L.  Quimby,  125  Brunswick  Avenue,  Gardiner,  Maine. 
Prof.  Thomas  F.  Sanford,  University  of  California,  Berkeley,  Calif.     (1030 

Vallejo  Street,  San  Francisco,  Calif.) 
*Thomas  H.  Talrnage  *Died  1895. 

E.  Henry  Thompson,  M.D.,  Hampton,  N.  H. 

William  A.  Tomes,  M.D.,  500  Classon  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
*Winthrop  Turney  *Died  1905. 

*George  H.  Vining  *Died  1914. 

William    D.    Washburn,    Jr.,    The    Minnesota    Timber    Land    Company, 

Minneapolis,  Minn. 
*Michael  E.  Woodward  *Died  1886. 

Roger   S.   Wotkyns,   Farrell   Foundry   &   Machine   Company,   Waterbury, 

Conn.     (161  Hillside  Avenue.) 

*Richard  H.  Wyeth  *Died  1903. 

*Warren  S.  Yates  *Died  1885. 

Non-graduates   and  Ex-members,     40 
Living,  26 

Deceased,  14 


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